U.K. Bookshop Crawls

Who wouldn't love to do a Bookshop Crawl in the U.K.? And, at so many different locations! The London Bookshop Crawl was last weekend, but the Cambridge Bookshop Crawl will take place Wednesday March 26; Bath Bookshop Crawl:April 3rd, and there are lots more. There are group bookshop crawls, as well as Bookshop Crawl Kits for those who want to do their own thing on the day. These crawls are filled with guided and self-guided tours of bookshops, quizzes, literary landmarks, and other book-related programs. Book shops will provide freebies, special perks, and events during the bookshop Cawl, both in bookshops and online. You'll get to meet other book people, too. And, there are BOOKS!!!

Bookshop Crawls are run around the U.K, in different locations each year, beginning with the Bookshop Crawl in London each February--then cycling rough a range of different locations between March and October. The London Book Crawl is a full weekend, but the others are just a day. Read more here. Check out the 2025 Bookshop Crawls, as well as the online Book Swap & Book Group. Sign up for the Newsletter. 

HT: Mel Hunt

McDonald & Dodds News!

I can't believe it! McDonald and Dodds, one of my favorite mystery shows, has been cancelled after only four (short) seasons! This popular (yes!!) series starred Jason Watkins as DS Dodds and Tala Gouveia as DCI Lauren McDonald. ITV has cancelled the show due to falling ratings. Fans, me included, are devastated. The show aired on BritBox in the U.S. 

McDonald & Dodds is set in Bath, England. It's about a pair of unlikely cops thrown together. They have built a great relationship and crime solving success. It's clever and fun!

Fans are not taking this lying down. A petition has been started at Change.org. 

"ITV says the show just doesn't have the viewers. Let's show them who's watching! If ITV won't have it back, some other platform. If it worked for Shakespeare & Hathaway, it could work for M&D!"

What do you think?

Peter Lovesey's Peter Diamond Bath TV series?

The Bath Chronicle reports:  
Production companies are being wooed in a campaign to persuade them to turn a series of detective novels set in Bath into a TV series. Tourism bosses are hoping that author Peter Lovesey's Bath detective Peter Diamond might follow in the footsteps of Oxford's Inspector Morse. Mr Lovesey will be in Bath next week to launch his latest novel Stagestruck, which is set at the Theatre Royal, and to reveal more details about the hopes of a TV series.

Marketing body Future Bath Plus has taken out an option on the series, which means it has first refusal on negotiating with production companies to get the filming off the ground. It is working with Bath-based director Giles Foster, who has been involved with series such as Foyle's War and The Four Seasons, which was shot in the city a few years ago.

Although the plans are still in the early stages, Mr Lovesey, the author of 11 books about Det Supt Diamond who is based at Manvers Street police station, said he was hopeful that a series would go ahead. Lovesey said: "If it happens then of course I would be over the moon, really thrilled.
"With all these things, we don't believe it will really happen until they actually start the filming. There have been a few disappointments all the way along, where things have seemed like they will happen, but this time it does seem to be looking promising. "They are putting a proposal together and it is looking good to me. I will be thrilled if it comes to something this time."

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Hat Tip: Soho Press