Bookish
a witty, warm-hearted mystery perfect for book lovers
$24.60
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2026
Summary
‘A delicious read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW
London, 1946. 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.
Book’s shop is a magnet for waifs and strays - some of whom bring mysteries of their own to his door. There’s Nora, sometime bookseller and true crime enthusiast; Dog, connoiss…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529444483 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529444489 |
| Author: | Matthew Sweet |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Bookish |
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Critics Review
A whimsical account both of postwar London and of the world of bookshops. A kind book with considerable wit. Highly readable. Clever in the best of senses * The Critic *
Beautifully crafted … Sweet evokes the world of 1946 London so well * The Tablet *
A whimsical account both of postwar London and of the world of bookshops. A kind book with considerable wit. Highly readable. Clever in the best of senses * The Critic *
Beautifully crafted … Sweet evokes the world of 1946 London so well * The Tablet *
About The Author
Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet is co-writer, with Mark Gatiss, of Bookish. He is a Fellow of the School of Advanced Study, University of London and the author of Inventing the Victorians, Shepperton Babylon, The West End Front, Operation Chaos, and the crime novel The New Forest Murders. His biography, Barbara Cartland: The Great Dictator, is published in September 2026.
He is the presenter of Free Thinking (BBC Radio 4) and his 25 years of television and radio programmes include The Culture Show (BBC2), Checking into History (C4), 12 years of Sound of Cinema (Radio 3), five series of The Philosophers Arms (Radio 4), and 1922: The Birth of Now, a ten-part history of modernism (Radio 4).
He has been film critic of the Independent on Sunday, photography critic of Newsweek, and fashion columnist for 1843/The Economist. Liberation Radio – his collaboration with the artists Nhung Nguyen and Esther Johnson – has been staged at the Manzi gallery in Hanoi and at Index, the Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm. 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.
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