The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time (Holmes Behind The Veil Book 3)

The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time by Thomas Kent Miller is a novel built from an unusual, documentary-style mix of sources. It is published as Holmes Behind The Veil Book 3.

Key details

• Author: Thomas Kent Miller
• Series: Holmes Behind The Veil, Book 3
• ISBN: 9781787051638
• Page count: 408
• Publication date: 24 November 2017

Synopsis

Structured as an assembled archive, the novel draws on a transcribed oral memoir, newspaper clippings, and a wide range of letters and journal pages spanning two millennia. Much of the material is framed by brief marginal notes written in a century-and-a-quarter-old, yellowed journal by an elderly beekeeper living in Sussex, England; although comparatively few, these comments provide the essential framework for the book’s shape and ending.

Alongside this, the narrative presents an objective record of excavating “historical” minutiae and “forgotten” manuscripts, before those fragments are brought together into something larger. The result is described as an unconventional work that flirts with crossover and steampunk genres.

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