Six books for the Christmas list, that have royalties going to Save Undershaw…..
Links:
Sherlock’s Home - The Empty House is available from all good bookstores including in the USA Barnes and Noble and Amazon, in the UK Waterstones, Amazon and Book Depository (free worldwide delivery) and in all electronic formats - Kindle, iPad, Kobo and Nook.
An Entirely New Country is available through all good bookstores including Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Classic Specialities, and in all electronic formats including iTunes, Kobo, Nook and in a very popular Kindle version that includes the dozens of photos.
56 Sherlock Holmes Stories in 56 Days is available from all good bookstores including in the USA Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and also now in ebook format including Amazon Kindle and iPad format.
‘The Real Sherlock Holmes’ is available all good bookstores including Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and in all formats including Amazon Kindle and now on the iPad too. Fans outside the US and UK can get free delivery from Book Depository.
The Many Watsons is available from all good bookshops including in the USA Amazon , in the UK Amazon and Waterstones. For elsewhere Book Depository who offer free delivery worldwide.
Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Crystal Blue Bottle is available from all good bookstores including in the USA Amazon, in the UK Amazon and Waterstones. For elsewhere Book Depository offer free delivery worldwide.
We’re delighted to confirm that Sherlock’s Home: The Empty House, featuring dozens of Sherlock Holmes actors, writers and supporters of the Save Undershaw campaign (including Mark Gatiss, Stephen Fry, Douglas Wilmer, and Nick Briggs) will be released in hardback and paperback in Russian by Amphora. This is following a brilliant short film about the cause featured on a leading national Russian TV news show this week.
‘Sherlock’s Home: The Empty House’ whose royalties go to the Undershaw Preservation Trust, is available in the USA Barnes and Noble and Amazon, in the UK Waterstones,Amazon and Book Depository (free worldwide delivery) and in all electronic formats - Kindle,iPad, Kobo and Nook.
The Russian news program included interviews with Save Undershaw, Sherlockology and MX Publishing who all got together to create the book.
NTV Russia featured a short film about Save Undershaw five times on their top news program throughout Monday this week to raise awareness of the campaign, and the book that is raising money to save Conan Doyle’s home - without which there would be no Sherlock Holmes today……
‘Sherlock’s Home: The Empty House’ whose royalties go to the Undershaw Preservation Trust, is available in the USA Barnes and Noble and Amazon, in the UK Waterstones,Amazon and Book Depository (free worldwide delivery) and in all electronic formats - Kindle,iPad, Kobo and Nook.
The Russian news program included interviews with Save Undershaw, Sherlockology andMX Publishing who all got together to create the book.
Last chance to enter the giveaway for Sherlock’s Home on Goodreads….
Raising vital funds for the Save Undershaw campaign to save Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s house (which faces destruction) - without Undershaw there would be no Sherlock Holmes! Please visit the Save Undershaw Facebook page and click ‘like’ to show the government and authorities that we should preserve this important part of Holmes history. Join Stephen Fry, Mark Gatiss and many other Holmes actors to support this important cause.
How would you renovate Sherlock’s Home? Here are the three floors of Undershaw. Please visit the Facebook page of Save Undershaw and give your thoughts….
Sherlock’s Home: The Empty House was created by Sherlockology to raise funds for Save Undershaw - please take a moment to ‘like’ the Facebook page. It’s available in all good bookstores including Amazon (and all ebook formats including Kindle, iPad, Kobo and Nook. ) and includes contributions from Mark Gatiss and Stephen Fry.
One is a book full of tantalising, teasing elements that will get your senses tingling, the other is a book by E L James.
Now that’s what we call exotic literature…… all royalties to Save Undershaw
OH. MY. GOSH. This will help fund Save Undershaw? THAT’S GREAT.
Ross K Foad interviews new Sherlock Holmes author Luke Kuhns on two subjects - his new book The Untold Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and his involvement with the Save Undershaw campaign.
The Untold Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is available from all good bookstores including in the USA Barnes and Noble and Amazon , in the UK Amazon and Waterstones and fans outside US and UK can get free delivery from Book Depository.
You can also read one of Luke’s stories in Sherlock’s Home: The Empty House. Links for that in the USA Barnes and Noble and Amazon, in the UK Waterstones, Amazon and Book Depository (free worldwide delivery) and in all electronic formats - Kindle, iPad, Kobo and Nook.
As we are in Sherlock Holmes Week (raising awareness for the Save Undershaw campaign which is aiming to save Conan Doyle’s former home), we take time out to interview Alistair Duncan, one of the UK’s main Conan Doyle biographers, and fervent supporter of Save Undershaw. Can you imagine a world without Sherlock Holmes? Well, that could easily have happened. Conan Doyle killed him off and it wasn’t until he was at Undershaw did he resurrect Holmes.
Many people (including ourselves) have argued that with Undershaw there would be no Sherlock Holmes today, is it was here that Holmes went from merely mildy famous, to a worldwide phenomenon. We’re in no doubt that Undershaw is a key reason why Sherlock Holmes endures today - but we’re not experts, so lets see what Alistair thinks.
Alistair has written four main books so far on Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes; his last ‘An Entirely New Country’ specifically on the time Conan Doyle spent at Undershaw, with a share of royalties going to the ?Undershaw campaign.
When the BBC first launched BBC Sherlock, it was Alistair who was asked, as a leading Holmes expert, to review the first episode (A Study In Pink) and comment on it for BBC Radio Five Live before broadcast.
Who better then to comment on the campaign’s importance for Holmes fans?
Why were the years at Undershaw so important?
Undershaw is the house that was home to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from 1897 to 1907. He helped to design it and under its roof many of his important works were produced. Notably, it was in this house that he resurrected Sherlock Holmes from his watery grave.
Some commentators claim that without Undershaw, there would be no Sherlock Holmes fandom today?
You could argue that, yes. It was, in part, the state of Conan Doyle’s finances during the building of Undershaw that led to him giving thought to writing a Sherlock Holmes play as a means of rescuing his bank balance. The play, which ultimately starred William Gillette, went on to great success around the world. It got people excited and reminded everyone just how staggeringly popular Holmes remained so many years after his ‘death’.
All of this excitement around Holmes may well have influenced Conan Doyle’s decision to include him in his famous story The Hound of the Baskervilles (which was not going to be a Holmes adventure to begin with). The commercial success of this story, in turn, inspired American magazine editor Norman Hapgood to talk Conan Doyle into a proper resurrection of Sherlock Holmes, beginning with The Adventure of the Empty House in 1903.
So, the impact of Undershaw on Conan Doyle’s bank balance in 1897 could be said to have indirectly triggered the full-time resurrection of Sherlock Holmes in 1903.
What can readers expect to find in your book An Entirely New Country?
The book covers the building of Undershaw and Conan Doyle’s entire time there. Amongst other things, readers will discover how the Sherlock Holmes play came into being; how Conan Doyle went to South Africa to be a medic in the Boer War and how, upon his return, he wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles; how he finally gave into the demands to resurrect Holmes and stood twice for Parliament (unsuccessfully).
To sum up, the book provides a focus on a very eventful decade for one of Britain’s most famous writers during which he wrote some of his best work. A share of all the royalties from the book go to the Save Undershaw campaign - as indeed do all the royalties from this year’s compilation by BBC Sherlock fan site Sherlockology - Sherlock’s Home: The Empty House which Alistair was a key contributor to as well.
To support the campaign please visit the Save Undershaw Facebook Page and like it, and pick up a copy of both the books ‘An Entirely New Country’ and ‘Sherlock’s Home: The Empty House’.
Both books are available from all good bookstores including in the USA Barnes and Noble and Amazon, in the UK Waterstones, Amazon and Book Depository (free worldwide delivery) and in all electronic formats - Kindle, iPad, Kobo and Nook.
I have this book. I highly recommend it. Well worth the read…the history is quite rich and fascinating!
Over the last few months leading up to the High Court Judicial Review, much has been said about Undershaw. We know of its neglected state and present precarious situation, as the house balances between being brought back to life in its original form, and ripped apart by developers, never to stand whole again. The alarming reality to see this house in the flesh however, as some of the Sherlockology team did recently, is far more shocking!
I just. Really want to fly across the globe to pull weeds and help clean this place up. Is that weird?
No. No it is not weird at all. I would want to help restore Undershaw too, so very much!
Sherlock’s Home: The Empty House
Almost forgot! Look at what was delivered to my office today (well yesterday)! Oh, I know this will be an excellent read. ♥
’Elementary’ Errors By Council See Campaigners Win Battle To Save Sherlock Creator’s Home
Undershaw Redevelopment Plans Quashed By High Court
30/05/2012
The man behind a three-year campaign to save the former Surrey home of Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is celebrating after winning a high-profile legal challenge to stop the redevelopment of the Grade II listed building.
A judgment handed down at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, following a judicial review brought by public law experts at Irwin Mitchell, states that Waverley Borough Council’s decision to grant planning permission to turn Undershaw into nine separate homes ‘must be quashed’ due to ‘legal flaws’ identified during the process.
The ruling brings an end to a global campaign to fight the redevelopment plans and preserve the history of the property, which was also designed and built by Conan Doyle.
After moving there in 1897, he wrote a number of Holmes stories, including the classic The Hound of the Baskervilles, while also entertaining numerous literary icons including Peter Pan author JM Barrie and Dracula creator Bram Stoker.
John Gibson, the Conan Doyle scholar who founded the Undershaw Preservation Trust in 2009 to oppose the redevelopment plans, gained support from Stephen Fry, Mark Gatiss, the co-creator of the BBC’s Sherlock and the area’s local MP and Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt during his tireless campaign against the permission granted to developer Fossway.
Reacting to the news, Mr Gibson said: “This has been a long and difficult battle to save Undershaw and we are absolutely thrilled with the decision to quash planning permission to redevelop the property. This is a place which is steeped in history and should be treated with reverence.
“Conan Doyle’s life and works are a fundamental part of British culture and arguably their stock has never been higher. We have been absolutely delighted to see enthusiasts from across the world get in touch and pledge their support to our efforts.
“We are very hopeful that this decision will signal a sea-change in attitude towards this historic property and that it will lead to it being rightly preserved as a single building – hopefully as a museum or centre where future generations can be inspired by the many stories which have been created within its walls.”
Andrew Lockley, Head of Public Law at Irwin Mitchell who has represented Mr Gibson throughout his legal battle to save Undershaw, said: “We have had long-held concerns that basic errors were made by Waverley Borough Council in its decision to grant planning permission on Undershaw and this view has now been absolutely vindicated.
“The local authority failed to ensure that it received English Heritage’s views on the plans before taking its decision, despite consultation with EH being a legal requirement due to the property’s Grade II listed status.
“In addition, the council failed in its duty to reconsider the Fossway development plans following the submission of a second application on the property which would see it maintained as a single dwelling.
“Today’s decision means it is now back to the drawing board in terms of the future of Undershaw but, like John, we hope to see this property of huge cultural and historical significance preserved and treated in the manner it deserves.”
For more information regarding Undershaw please visit the Undershaw Preservation Trust’s website: http://www.saveundershaw.com/.
It’s OFFICIAL! Undershaw has been saved!
Read the official Press Release here.
UPT Co-Founder Lynn Gale says, ”We did it! The team from all over the world has saved the former home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from development. The judge ruled in our favour this morning. Thank you to everyone for all their support.”
- from saveundershaw.com
We’re absolutely thrilled by this news and incredibly grateful to all who have campaigned tirelessly to get Arthur Conan Doyle’s home saved from development. It’s a wonderful day for Sherlockians! It’s also a great opportunity to thank everyone who entered the Save Undershaw montage project and give you a little update on how it’s going.
The poster’s slogan will now be changed from “Save Undershaw” to “We saved Undershaw!” which is absolutely fantastic! We’re still working on the layout of the poster and will be updating on how it’s going over at our Twitter.
The winning entry will be revealed at the same time as we launch the final poster.
Thank you all again for entering. The journey of the Undershaw Preservation Trust can now properly begin!
Want more Undershaw?
- @SaveUndershaw at Twitter
- Official site - Save Undershaw .com
Some wonderful coverage yesterday from several national newspapers and on national television for the fight to Save Undershaw.
A very visual symbol of the campaign has been Sherlock’s Home - the book put together in record time (under 3 weeks) with over 50 contributors including Stephen Fry, Mark Gatiss and Douglas Wilmer - and with more than 30 new Sherlock Holmes stories.
Fans drove the book up to #710 on Amazon UK and high also in the Kindle charts - we have a few weeks left before the judges decision, and the book royalties will provide much needed funds for the Undershaw Preservation Trust - and at the same time create lots of awareness.
For those of you that want to help - here are some very easy steps that in total take less than a minute to do;
1. Click ‘like’ on the Save Undershaw Facebook page.
2. Click ‘like’ on Sherlock’s Home on Amazon USA and Amazon UK., Amazon Kindle USA, Amazon Kindle UK, Book Depository (free worldwide delivery),Waterstones.
A huge thankyou to all the fans that have done this and especially to all the Holmes bloggers on tumblr for the amazing awareness you are all creating.
SIGNAL BOOST
Even though I’m in the US, I already purchased a copy of this through the UK’s Amazon. I’m eagerly awaiting for it to be dispatched and for it to arrive! I’m so happy this will help support the the saving of Undershaw. Definitely.
After hearing the case for and against destroying Undershaw, a really nice touch from the judge as he commended the Holmes supporters who had sat in silence for seven hours - every single seat in the public gallery was full with Save Undershaw supporters, led by Lynn Gale.
We understand the decision will be in July.
Watch out for articles in the Daily Express, Times and others who sent photographers to the High Court and on national TV any moment now as the reporter interviewed chairman of the trust John Gibson for the evening news.
You can still help - we’ve managed to Sherlock’s Home to number 726 on the bestseller list, I am sure we can get it higher.
1. Click ‘like’ on the Save Undershaw Facebook page.
2. Click ‘like’ on Sherlock’s Home on Amazon USA and Amazon UK.
Amazon Kindle USA, Amazon Kindle UK, Book Depository (free worldwide delivery),Waterstones.
All royalties go to the Undershaw Preservation Trust. 50 copies of the book were given out to fans who turned up at the High Court for the judicial review. Watch out for us all in the national newspapers (several nationals here this morning).
Share, reblog, tweet like mad while we have this important press coverage……
DO IT. My dearest Sherlockians, it’s more important than ever now to spread the word, like, reblog, follow, buy the books…
I dearly hope Undershaw will be saved! SIGNAL BOOST!
