Dear Percival: Recent Episodes
Charles Green
Danny Saverino works in The Druids Eye bookshop in Bloomsbury with Mr Bootle, The Great Mrs Gharib, Jemima and Jacquetta. His parents are missing and Dear Percival is Danny's diary entries following his worldwide search. All of these fantastic characters (and so many more) feature in the wonderful new novel People of Bloomsbury by D. J. Swales.
Danny is loving the Luxor Winter Palace. His crowdfunding sponsors are getting stroppy. What has become of Basma! Has she eaten the cauliflower crudités or has she been eaten by hyenas! Danny decides he wants to become a writer. It doesn't last long...
In this episode Danny meets Yassir, a Nubian handyman of many talents and Basma an extremely athletic hotel employee...well not meet exactly...chased by would be more accurate after he makes an express hotel check out. Will Basma catch him up! Why! Where!
In this episode Danny travels to Luxor in Egypt in the search for his missing parents. He receives a mysterious phone call. Who is the mystery caller! What do they know! Where are they! Listen in and find out!!
Danny is traumatised by some massive vegetables and discovers that his Mum has been limbo dancing and giving English lessons. Will Danny ever find his parents!!!!
Danny is staying in an adults only hotel witnessing things he has never seen before! Making noodles with meatballs in a kettle is just not right!!
Danny is now in Egypt. He still hasn't found his parents who are proving elusive. We hear about Suzette's spotty bottom and a moral outrage. Will Danny be arrested!
In this episode we hear about some of Danny's crowdfunders. Suzette who used to be wonderful and now definitely isn't, Ricky who has a sleazy-looking hot tub and Akiko who has lost her parents too.
Danny has an armrest war on the plane. Will he triumph! Will he use the kimchi as a weapon of mass murmuring and disgust!
Danny is in South Korea hot on the trail of his parents. We hear about the haenyeo divers, corsets and Danny's overindulgence on Kimchi and the remarkably gassy effect it has on him. Nobody strike a match!!
Danny is still trapped on the sand dune by hundreds of rattlesnakes. We hear all about Alabaster and Enid Blyton. Will Danny ever catch up with his parents!
In this episode we find Danny, still searching for his missing parents, trapped on a sand dune, surrounded by rattlesnakes and alligators. We also hear how he becomes the Port Aransas barbecue King!
In this episode we hear how Danny's search for his parents has got as far as Barbados. We also hear about Lara, Brandy, Ricky, Marlene and Suzette (who was named after a pancake). Will Danny find his parents! Will Suzette turn out to be a total bitch!
In this first instalment of Danny's diary we learn that his parents have been seen in the Philippines on the paradise Isle of Boracay. Will Danny catch up with them?
Danny learns of Vesta Tilley and Sarah Siddons. Will he visit Worcester with Genghis Snell and Mrs Sorpresa?
Danny is thwarted in his search yet again. Will he ever find his parents? Will Jemima emit a malodorous cloud? Was that really Josie in the Co-op?
In this episode, Danny persuades Mr Bootle to allow a 'Booth' in the bookshop like the one he had seen in Paris. It does not end well.
We hear how Danny's trip to Paris went. Is his search for his parents fruitless? We are introduced to Balian Bartholomew, owner of the iconic Shakespeare & Company bookshop.
Mr Bootle tells Danny all about Jemima and how she came to be locked in a cupboard in the basement. What is she?Yes, she's a ghost! And a nasty one as well.
Danny has a close encounter with Jemima , or is it Sabrina, or Suzy, or Lilith? What is she? What is she doing locked in a cupboard? Mr Bootle saves the day.
In part one of this thrilling episode Danny learns more about the mysterious, malodorous Jemima and the disdainful Jacquetta of Luxembourg.
In this episode Danny finds out more about Mr. Bootle's family and history. He finds a strange locked door in the basement. Why is it locked? What's in there?
In this episode Danny Saverino hears more about the fascinating and mysterious Mr Bootle, his family's life in India and the bookshops they ran there. This episode and podcast showcases Danny Saverino and his diary Dear Percival taken from the new and fantastic new novel People of Bloomsbury by author and poet D J Swales.
In this episode we are introduced to Danny Saverino, one of the fantastic characters from the upcoming magical realism novel People of Bloomsbury by D J Swales and hear how he started to work for Mr Bootle at The Druids Eye bookshop in Bloomsbury.
This is the first episode of the Dear Percival letters from People of Bloomsbury by D J Swales. We hear of Danny Saverino and his search for his parents. Fireworks, a lost filling, Sexxie Sharon and Tahitian fire dancing all appear.