ASIN: B00U3WBO4G
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 62
Well, how on earth to describe this book:
It's rambling, witty, erudite and full of arcane bits and bobs.
It's a wild bicycle ride through the narrow lanes of the English literary countryside with occasional disappearances into very dark woods or down rabbit holes after the White Rabbit.
It's crammed with a sweetie-jar-full of reading suggestions – enough to keep you chomping for the next decade or two.
It's by a former English teacher, poet and prize-winning short-story writer.
It started out as a Companion to Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Sign of the Four", one of the current GCSE set books, but something sort of happened to it.
It travels where No Woman Has Gone Before, from Star Trek to the Letters of Seneca via Sherlock Holmes, Einstein, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, Stephen Hawking, Vladimir Nabokov, Noddy, Big Ears and Rupert Bear.
It makes sudden swerves into philosophy, psychology ...
