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Film and Media student has first book published

Wendy C. Fries, a Birkbeck BA student in her second year studying film and media, has this year had her first book published, 'Sherlock Holmes and John Watson: The Day They Met'.

Wendy C. Fries, a Birkbeck BA student in her second year studying film and media, has this year had her first book published. Sherlock Holmes and John Watson: The Day They Met, is a collection of 50 stories imagining new ways the world's most legendary partnership might have begun.

For any Birkbeck students interested in talking about writing, publishing, or studying at Birkbeck, do drop by the book's release party at 2 pm on Saturday 21 February, The Boot Pub, Cromer Street, WC1H 8BS (near King's Cross/St. Pancras).

'Sherlock Holmes and John Watson have wandered far from the light of Victorian gas lamps. As Holmes and Watson they've tangled with Nazis, as Sherlock and John they roam the corridors of New Scotland Yard. In a world of so many fresh adventures, why not fresh beginnings to those adventures? From an 1879 Kabul train station to a King's College lecture theatre in 2015, The Day They Met includes stories both classic and contemporary, offering fifty intriguing new ways that the world's most legendary partnership might have begun.'

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