Episode #65 The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle His Last Bow The Book Wordsworth Editions Limited published my edition of the book. It is part of the Wordsworth Library Collection from 2007 and was published with the original illustrations from the original work. The first complete stories book was published in 1928. This is…
Episode #64 The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Return of Sherlock Holmes The Book My edition of the book was published by Wordsworth Editions Limited. It became part of the Wordsworth Library Collection in 2007 and was published with the original illustrations from the original work. The first complete stories book was published in…
Episode #63 The Yard By Alex Grecian The Book My copy is a paperback, the eighteenth printing, originally published by Penguin Books in 2013. It has 584 pages and no extras. The story was first released in 2012. What Did I Think This is a crime drama. I was expecting a type of whodunit, but…
Episode #16 … February 2025 Saturday 1st I bought something for the missus and when I received it it was torn. I wasn’t happy with the way it was torn. This was something that couldn’t have happened in transport. And the item description said it was in “very good” condition. So I sent a few…
Episode #58 The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Book This edition, of the book, was published by Wordsworth Editions Limited. It became part of the Wordsworth Library Collection in 2007 and was published with the original illustrations from the original work. The first complete stories book was published…
Episode #50 I went back to Google’s best books of all time. This time I went with… The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald The Book The original book was first published by Scribner’s, on the 10th of April 1925. Scribner’s was bought by Simon & Schuster in 1994. My copy is an ebook, I…
Episode #13 … November 2024 Friday 1st Today is my day off, but it feels weird to call it a day off as I have to go to bed in the afternoon. I need to start treating these one-day off, like a workday and return to that habit. Anyway as I have been up since…
Episode #48 Shanghai Immortal by A. Y. Chao The Book My copy of the book is a first-print paperback edition. The original hardback print was published in 2023, and this copy was published in 2024 by Hodderscape, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton Limited, a Hatchette UK company. The book has 342 pages with acknowledgements, credits and an…
Episode #47 Brave New World By Aldous Huxley The Book This book was originally written in 1931. Then published on the 4th of February in 1932 by Chatto & Windus. They were an independent publisher, later absorbed by Penguin Randon House UK into a sub-division called Vintage Books. My copy is I believe the 8th…
Episode #11 …September 2024 Monday 2nd I bought myself a box set from my favourite Poirot. David Suchet. I recently read Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie and then watched the Kenneth Branagh movie version. There are several deviations from the book to the 2017 film. Never mind, I am still waiting for…
