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Stars Mark Gatiss and Polly Walker take DQ inside the world of Bookish, a murder-mystery series that introduces Gabriel Book, a bookshop owner with the knowledge needed to help the police tackle some baffling cases in post-war London. He’s a member of comedy troupe The League of Gentlemen and co-creator of the BBC’s acclaimed detective series Sherlock. And now, the multi-talented Mark Gatiss is playing a detective himself in period murder-mystery drama Bookish. The actor, writer, director and comedian stars as the erudite and unconventional Gabriel Book who, from his antiquarian bookshop, helps the police to solve a variety of mysterious crimes. The show opens in 1946. Book is a maverick consultant for the local police, and the thousands of books that line the shelves in his bookshop in Archangel Lane – called Book’s – provide all the knowledge he needs to solve the most puzzling of crimes. His wife Trottie (Polly Walker) runs the wallpaper shop next door, but though they share a deep love, their union is a ‘lavender’ marriage to help conceal Book’s sexual orientation at a time when it was illegal to be gay. Connor Finch also stars as Book’s mysterious new employee Jack, Elliot Levey plays Inspector Bliss and Blake Harrison is Sergeant Morris, with Buket Kömür as the spirited Nora. Gatiss first pitched his idea for a period murder-mystery series to Walter Iuzzolino and Jo McGrath of producer Eagle Eye Drama after they asked him about the kind of project he wanted to make … Continue reading Read all about it
