Having joined NetGalley, I'd applied to read two books. One publisher said no but one thankfully said yes.
The book that I've been sent from is the publishers Grove Atlantic and is called 'From Holmes to Sherlock' by Matthias Bostrom translated from the Swedish by Michael Gallagher.
One slight issue is the formatting of this book on a Kindle device, occasionally sentences will break awkwardly but it's not too distracting.
First of all I have only just started reading the book and it's already very interesting. The author begins his book by presenting his readers with a snapshot of a dinner thrown by a Sherlockian society, during which Mark Gattis outlines his plans for the reboot of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, the new show of course will simply be called Sherlock. The author beautifully sets the scene in this dinner, outlining the vision that Gatiss had for Holmes, as the author eloquently puts it, he wants to take it from Holmes to Sherlock. The man Doyle described in his novels and short stories will be brought to modern day London and anyone who has seen the tv series knows that it is a magnificent tv program.
The author then moved us from that dinner to a discussion of Doyle creating Holmes, he transports us back to 1878.
In the chapter on 1878-1879 the author brilliantly imagines and describes a scene that would have taken place between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (the man who would go on to create Sherlock Holmes) and Dr Joseph Bell (widely believed to be a basis for Holmes).
I have only just statted reading this book and it has captured my imagination. As an avid fan of any Sherlock Holmes talk I was intrigued to read this title and so far it is of to a very promising start.
The book that I've been sent from is the publishers Grove Atlantic and is called 'From Holmes to Sherlock' by Matthias Bostrom translated from the Swedish by Michael Gallagher.
One slight issue is the formatting of this book on a Kindle device, occasionally sentences will break awkwardly but it's not too distracting.
First of all I have only just started reading the book and it's already very interesting. The author begins his book by presenting his readers with a snapshot of a dinner thrown by a Sherlockian society, during which Mark Gattis outlines his plans for the reboot of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, the new show of course will simply be called Sherlock. The author beautifully sets the scene in this dinner, outlining the vision that Gatiss had for Holmes, as the author eloquently puts it, he wants to take it from Holmes to Sherlock. The man Doyle described in his novels and short stories will be brought to modern day London and anyone who has seen the tv series knows that it is a magnificent tv program.
The author then moved us from that dinner to a discussion of Doyle creating Holmes, he transports us back to 1878.
In the chapter on 1878-1879 the author brilliantly imagines and describes a scene that would have taken place between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (the man who would go on to create Sherlock Holmes) and Dr Joseph Bell (widely believed to be a basis for Holmes).
I have only just statted reading this book and it has captured my imagination. As an avid fan of any Sherlock Holmes talk I was intrigued to read this title and so far it is of to a very promising start.
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