Day Ten, and we're back to fiction. This is The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss, a great fun adventure that I would recommend wholeheartedly, except I'm pretty sure that you've all read it. It's the first of three, and I think it's by far the best of the trilogy, though the whole set is entertaining. I've long thought it would make a great BBC serial, and now that Mark Gattis is too old to cast himself as the lead, the time is surely ripe for an adaptation! Come on, Beeb. As soon as your actors are allowed to be in the same room as each other, anyway...

