Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle Books

Save Undershaw Books raise thousands of dollars towards campaign to save Sherlock’s Home

Actors, authors, illustrators and fans who have written and contributed to six major books are kindly donating royalties to the Save Undershaw campaign. Please help by doing two things:

1. Visit the Save Undershaw Facebook Page and click ‘like’

2. Share this list of great books as far and wide as possible - if you’ve read them, please post up a review on your favourite bookstore.

The books are:

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. [including contributions from Mark Gatiss and Stephen Fry]…

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 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.

Kickstarter Project For Sherlock’s Home The Empty House - 90% Funded - 5 days to go

With 5 days to go the Kickstarter project to get Sherlock’s Home: The Empty house into Spanish, French, Italian, German and Dutch is getting very close to getting funded.

This weekend is vital - we need about 20 more £15 pledges (which have a reward that includes a copy of the language of choice). If more is raised then we will try and include more languages. A big thankyou to Sherlockology who created the original book with us, and are promoting this proejct.

So come on, be a part of history and help us get Sherlock’s Home into the hands of thousands more fans and raise vital funds for the Save Undershaw campaign - you can help by:

1. Visiting the Save Undershaw Facebook page and liking it.

2. Pledging to the Kickstarter Project - every pledge helps from £1 up and there are some great rewards in there too.

3. Buying a copy of the English language version of the book

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.

Without Undershaw There Would Be No Sherlock Holmes

Your’e a Sherlock Holmes fan then? BBC Sherlock, the Warner Brothers movies, Jeremy Brett perhaps, or Basil Rathbone? Well, none of the above would have come to pass had it not been for the time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spent at Undershaw - the home he himself had a hand designing. It was at Undershaw that Conan Doyle brought Sherlock Holmes back to life. Until then, Holmes had been merely popular. It was the subsequent stories, like The Hound of The Baskervilles that propelled Holmes to international fame and led to the Holmes legacy of today.

Undershaw today faces destruction. In a state of disrepair caused by a proposed development, the house lies in ruins.

There is however hope that we can preserve this important part of our Holmes history. The Save Undershaw campaign is fighting to have the building restored to its former glory and has already won some important legal battles (including in the high court) and we have some important supporters. Mark Gatiss (BBC Sherlock) is our patron, and leading actors and writers like Stephen Fry, Douglas Wilmer, Nick Briggs, Gyles Brandreth, Robert Llewellyn and many others are giving their support.

You too can do your bit to save this wonderful building. Here are the top five ways that you can help Save Undershaw [the first three will only take around two minutes of your time…..];

1. Visit the Facebook page for Save Undershaw and click like. This is an important demonstration to the authorities that Holmes fans care about Undershaw.

2. Visit Amazon and click ‘like’ on the page for Sherlock’s Home: The Empty House [USA], [UK] the book put together by the supporters of Undershaw - featuring Mark Gatiss, Stephen Fry and many others. We want to make it the most liked book on Amazon.

3. Watch the video from our patron Mark Gatiss about why Undershaw is so important.

4. Support one of the six books that have royalties going to the Save Undershaw campaign.

5. Visit the Save Undershaw Shop which has mugs, christmas cards and various other items raising funds for the trust.

Of the above, the most important is the Facebook Page - there are millions of Sherlock Holmes fans around the world and we want to prove to the authorities that the fans care about the heritage. #believeinsherlock? Then #believeinundershaw too please.

[Sceptics can read ‘An Entirely New Country’ the book about Conan Doyle’s time at Undershaw which has a mountain of evidence to support a world without Sherlock Holmes…..]

Sherlock’s Home To Be Released In Russian - Save Undershaw

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.

Sherlock’s Home - Plans for Undershaw

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.

BBC Sherlock’s Mark Gatiss on Save Undershaw

“I would like to express my whole-hearted enthusiasm for the campaign to save Undershaw. It seems to me a very sad reflection on our times that the home of one of our greatest and most popular writers should be so neglected and in danger of unsympathetic redevelopment.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle occupied several residences in his prolific and thrilling career, only Undershaw bears the stamp of his massive personality. Here the Hound of the Baskervilles first breathed spectral life and Sherlock Holmes himself was resurrected from the Reichenbach Falls. Here Stoker, Barrie and Hornung and many others were entertained. It’s no exaggeration to say that Undershaw was the centre of Doyle’s life during perhaps the most fruitful and fascinating phase of his career. It must be saved and take its place among the sensitively preserved residences of this country’s other literary giants.”

Extract from the Mark Gatiss contribution to ‘Sherlock’s Home - The Empty House’.

‘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. 

Sherlock’s Home - The History of Undershaw

If you want to know more about the history of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s home Undershaw, you don’t need to go much further than an award winning book on Conan Doyle’s time in the house (a share of the royalties going to Save Undershaw) written by one of the UK’s leading Holmes historians. Here is the full book review from the latest edition of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London’s journal.

Summer 2012 - The Sherlock Holmes Journal – The Sherlock Holmes Society of London. Vol 30, Number 4, (119^th Issue)

“Close to Holmes confirmed Alistair Duncan as a truly important writer in our field. In The Norwood Author [for which he won the 2011 Howlett Award], he illuminated an essential period in the life of Conan Doyle, when Sherlock Holmes leapt to international fame – and his creator killed him. Mr Duncan’s new book throws light on the years that followed, when Conan Doyle and his family lived in Undershaw, the house he’d built in Hindhead, the centre of an informal community of writers and artists, where conditions were favourable for his invalid wife Louise.

During the Undershaw years he wrote The Hound of The Baskervilles and The Return of Sherlock Holmes. He served as a field surgeon in the Boer War and wrote a full history of the conflict. He adopted the case of the wrongly convicted George Edalji. He was knighted. And he fell in love with Jean Leckie, who would become his second wife. Today, Undershaw is in a sad state, empty and threatened by inappropriate “development”. It’s fitting that the foreword to this admirable book was written by Mark Gatiss, the Patron of the Undershaw Preservation Trust.”

An Entirely New Country is available from all good bookstores including Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Book Depository (free delivery worldwide) and in all electronic formats including Kindle, Kobo, Nook and iBooks (iPad) and direct from the publishers (MX Publishing) for trade customers.