Anyone for a period detective drama set in London and featuring an eccentric but brilliant amateur sleuth? No, not that one – although Bookish is written by and stars Mark Gatiss, who co-created BBC One’s Benedict Cumberbatch-era Sherlock and played Mycroft Holmes. But if Mycroft was Sherlock’s older brother, then Gatiss’s new character, Gabriel Book, could be seen (chronologically as well as spiritually) as the son of Sherlock.
This last comment is addressed to a young assistant, Jack (Connor Finch), who has come to work for Book straight out of prison and stands in for the audience as he gets to know his eccentric new patron. Jack is quickly introduced to Book’s “little hobby” when his boss is called to assist the police after some skeletons are discovered in a nearby bombsite. And no sooner has Book deduced that this is an ancient plague pit than he is summoned to the apparent suicide, by poisoning, of a local chemist.
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It all looks authentic (even with Antwerp standing in for London) while Book’s unlikely presence during police investigations is explained by him possessing a mysterious “special letter from Churchill”. And while Bookish enjoys many of the trappings of cosy crime, then the titular detective’s domestic arrangements give the drama an extra dimension. For while Book is happily wed, it’s a “lavender marriage” of convenience; he is a gay man in a hostile era. He shares a bed with his wife Trottie (Polly Walker), but only for a bedtime read. After a chaste goodnight kiss, he’s off next door.
Bookish is grounded in an interesting period in our history, too, as Britain emerged disorientated from the Second World War. As Nora gleefully puts it: “Half the soldiers have come back with pistols stolen from dead Nazis. Just to think that people used to kill each other by boiling down arsenic from wallpaper.”
Polly Walker as Trottie (Photo: UKTV)Gatiss gives himself the best lines, while with Trottie, Jack and a perkily morbid young neighbour called Nora (Buket Komur) – the orphaned daughter of Turkish restaurateurs – he is surrounded by an engagingly unconventional family of sleuthing assistants.
‘Bookish’ continues next Wednesday at 8pm on U&Alibi
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