Bookish
$46.80
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
7 July 2025
Summary
Bookish: A Novel of Books, Murder, and Unexpected Secrets
Adapted from the upcoming major series created by Mark Gatiss
Gabriel Book is an erudite and unconventional London bookseller married to Trottie, the owner of the wallpaper shop next door. He is also a sleuth who uses the chaotic riches of his stock to crack the puzzling cases that come his way.
He does not work alone. Book’s shop is a magnet for waifs and strays - some of whom bring mysteries…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529444445 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529444446 |
| Series: | Bookish |
| Author: | Matthew Sweet |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 7 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 592g |
| Dimensions: | 37mm x 242mm x 164mm |
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About The Author
Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet is co-writer, with Mark Gatiss, of Bookish. He presents Free Thinking on BBC Radio 4 and Sound of Cinema on BBC Radio 3. He is the author of Inventing the Victorians, Shepperton Babylon, The West End Front and Operation Chaos. His 25 years of television and radio programmes include The Culture Show, Checking into History, five series of The Philosopher’s Arms and 1922: The Birth of Now, a ten-part history of modernism. He has been film critic of the Independent on Sunday, photography critic of Newsweek and fashion columnist for 1843/The Economist. His film Liberation Radio screened in the 2021 London Film Festival and at the Manzi gallery in Hanoi. In 2017 he and the baker Frances Quinn achieved a chocolate-related Guinness World record that held good until 2022, when it was broken by Ant and Dec. His crime novel The New Forest Murders and his biography The Great Dictator: The Life of Barbara Cartland are forthcoming.
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