Brought to Book: A Tale of Lust, Cunning and Deceit in the Book Trade

When the legendary, fabulously rich and childless, bookshop proprietor, Blanche Ardbuckle, finally does die, her last request will cause a sensation. Five former lovers (staff recruitment could have a special emphasis at Ardbuckle’s) are told that after a fixed period of managing the huge bookselling business, one victor will emerge to become the new proprietor and inherit a fortune. The five all have their own reasons for wanting to win. A failing actor, a lady novelist not quite selling as much as she used to, a very much on the back-bench ex-MP, an entrepreneurial bookseller whose national chain faces financial meltdown and an idealist still trying to reconcile a modern lifestyle with an old-fashioned conscience. Brought to Book is a delightful comedy of manners exploring the consequences of the mayhem caused when ever money, sex, business and the media get together.