Tales of Long Ago

Classics

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Although he is best known to the public as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories and other pioneering works of detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle successfully contributed to other genres, such as historical fiction, as demonstrated by this collection he compiled in 1922.,,These vivid and enthralling stories – which take the reader to Roman Britain, ancient Carthage, M….Read More

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The Sign of Four

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Classic American Literature, Classic Literature & Fiction, Mystery Fiction, Private Investigators

The Lost World

Something has survived...It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end -… Continue Reading

Leaves of Grass: Selected Poems

Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman’s glorious poetry collection, first published in 1855, which he revised and expanded throughout his lifetime. It was ground-breaking in its subject matter and in… Continue Reading

The Hound of the Baskervilles

"Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!",,The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits… Continue Reading Posted in: Classics, Fiction, Mystery

A Study in Scarlet

Sherlock show cocreator Steven Moffat provides an introduction to this first in a set of Sherlock Holmes reissues that tie in with the television series, ,The hit series Sherlock offers a fresh, contemporary… Continue Reading Posted in: Classics, Fiction, Mystery

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in this collection of of twelve stories from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon, based on Arthur Conan… Continue Reading Posted in: Classics, Fiction, Mystery

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