SHERLOCK HOLMES: A light-hearted look at portrayals in TV and cinema - with author Martin Davies

Derby Book Festival has teamed up with the Society of Authors, Derby Libraries and Derbyshire Library Service to organise a series of talks by local authors in libraries across the city and county in June with more planned in the autumn. 

Martin’s first novel was published (in Dutch, bizarrely) in 2004, and eight more have followed since then, and most of his work is often inspired by genuine mysteries or unexplained events.

‘The Conjuror’s Bird’, his first UK novel, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club and sold over 150,000 copies. Its successor, ‘The Unicorn Road’, was selected as one of The Times/WH Smith Top 100 paperbacks of 2009. ‘The Year After’, set in the English countryside in the aftermath of the First World War, is a book-club favourite. ‘Havana Sleeping’, an espionage thriller inspired by events surrounding an unsolved murder in Cuba in the 1850s, was shortlisted for the 2015 CWA Historical Dagger award. In addition, there are now seven novels in his Mrs Hudson series, about Sherlock Holmes’ housekeeper and her helper, Flotsam.