A Sort of Book Event

I'm not sure whether A.J. Hall's stupendous Queen of Gondal (http://archiveofourown.org/series/7681) series belongs here or with the AU: Alternate Universe ones,, so I'll rec it in both places. If you don't know this fantastic, detailed, 15-part (so far!) AU by the great AJ, which crosses Sherlock with the imaginary late 17th century kingdoms dreamt up by the Brontë children, RUN not walk. (And you get the odd character from Cabin Pressure and Life On Mars thrown in on, occasion, too!)

The Queen of Gondal series is Sherlock meets The Prisoner of Zenda meets every Errol Flynn/Douglas Fairbanks, Jr movie you can dream of. It is witty, swashbucking, romantic, funny, dramatic, action-packed, incredibly erudite, and did I mention funny? The latest instalment, The Cock o' the North, has just been published, but you really need to start at the beginning, The Crown Princess of Gaaldine.

This is the author's introduction to the series:

This is a quasi-historical AU of the BBC Sherlock series set (more or less) in three fantasy kingdoms devised by the Bronte children.

The time period is roughly the late seventeenth century and readers should bear in mind that this saga contains the doings of a set of supremely dysfunctional more-or-less European Royal families steeped in the "divine right of kings" ideology of monarchy, filtered through an early nineteenth century Romantic/Gothick sensibility and then depicted using the freedom of expression afforded by the early twenty-first century internet.

Furthermore, if the Greek myths contemplated it, some member of the Royal houses of Gondal, Angria or Gaaldine has probably put it into practice somewhere.

Gentle reader, consider yourself advised accordingly.

Short for my taste at 170,924 words, this is, fortunately, far from finished, although nearly each story is an individual novella with its own resolution