Myrmidon has acquired Investigating Sherlock, an unofficial guide to the award-winning BBC TV series, from literary agent Bill Hanna of Acacia House acting for ECW Press of Canada. Myrmidon acquired English language rights for UK, Europe and the Commonwealth to the guide book by bestselling author Nikki Stafford, which examines each episode through in-depth and fun analysis, exploring the character development and cataloging every subtle reference to the original stories.
“This is a real, ultimate fans’ guide,” said Kate Nash, director at Myrmidon who acquired the title. “Investigating Sherlock is more than just trivia. There’s no other book on the market that considers Sherlock as a phenomenon and puts the BBC TV series into context. Included are biographies of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as well as Arthur Conan Doyle, and interviews with Sherlockian experts.”
Myrmidon will publish Investigating Sherlock in paperback on 2nd September 2015 with an RRP of £9.99.
From biblical feuding to dashing cavalrymen, Antonia Senior of The Times guides readers through March’s best historical fiction. Our very own author, P.S. Duffy and her novel The Cartographer of No Man’s Land feature in this wonderful write up with the following review:
Subject matter does not come much bleaker than the First World War and debut Canadian novelist PS Duffy tackles it with confidence. In The Cartographer of No Man’s Land, Angus MacGrath is a sailor from Nova Scotia who enlists in a quixotic attempt to find his missing brother-in-law, Ebbin. Angus is reassured that he will be employed behind the lines as a cartographer. Instead, he is dispatched to the front and the Battle of Arras. At home, his teenage son Simon, grapples with his father’s absence and the rising hostility towards his pacifist grandfather and his German teacher, Mr Heist.
Snag Harbour, Nova Scotia, echoes with a hollow patriotism while Angus and his fellow Canadians fight to gain control of Vimy Ridge. There is a disconnected madness at the heart of the fighting. The relationships between the men and the incoherence of battle are reminiscent of Karl Marlantes’ seminal Vietnam novel, Matterhorn. The fate of Ebbin is cleverly done, but horribly effective. If the rest of the novel feels unsubstantial, particularly Angus’s relationship with a French woman, it is only because the central horror is so vividly executed.
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Cult US drama Breaking Bad is to be broadcast in full on UK terrestrial television for the first time.
The critically acclaimed series Breaking Bad concluded in 2013. It won five Primetime Emmys last year, including best drama series and best actor for Bryan Cranston.
Whether you’re looking forward to watching the series again, or you’re trying it for the first time, you’ll definitely need the complete, unofficial companion Wanna Cook?.
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Award-winning author, Tan Twan Eng, discusses his love of Malaysian culture, tells of his ideas to spark off new literary talent and offers the media some candid advice.
MC speaks to one of Malaysia’s greatest literary talents in a two-page interview.
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It’s not every day you come across a writer like P.S. Duffy. Aside from gaining critical acclaim for her debut novel, “The Cartographer of No Man’s Land,” Duffy’s likely the sole name at the center of a Venn diagram of people who’ve authored both a graduate-level textbook in neuroscience and a fiction novel set during World War I. It’s safe to say that “multifaceted” is a world that would fit within the “special skills” section of the Minnesota author’s resume.
“The Cartographer of No Man’s Land,” which tells the story of a father at war and a son coming of age at home without him, was selected as a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. It was also a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, an international award that recognizes the power of literature to foster peace. The book has been published in Britain, Taiwan, Canada and will soon be out in Hebrew in Israel.
Fortunately for Wayzata readers, fans of Duffy won’t have to travel far to hear more about her career-shifting piece of literature. The author is getting ready to leave her Rochester home and travel north to lead Wayzata in the second-annual Wayzata Reads community book club discussion Thursday, Feb. 26, at Wayzata Library and city hall.
The novel was selected by Wayzata’s former longstanding bookstore, The Bookcase, and the event was organized by the City of Wayzata, Friends of the Wayzata Library and the Wayzata Chamber of Commerce. A pre-presentation book discussion is 1 p.m. at Wayzata Library, followed in the evening by a 7 p.m. author presentation in the Community Room at Wayzata City Hall.
Between Duffy’s scientific research and thinking about her next novel, which the author has decided to keep mum about, she found time to talk with the Sun Sailor about her inspiration for the book, the research that went into it and how it feels it be making a return trip to Wayzata.
This article was first published in the Sun Sailor by Jason Jenkins on
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Myrmidon has acquired Investigating Sherlock, an unofficial guide to the award-winning BBC TV series, from literary agent Bill Hanna of Acacia House acting for ECW Press of Canada. Myrmidon acquired English language rights for UK, Europe and the Commonwealth to the guide book by bestselling author Nikki Stafford, which examines each episode through in-depth and fun analysis, exploring the character development and cataloging every subtle reference to the original stories. 
