Favourite Writers: Crime and Mysteries
My love affair with mysteries began with Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. I was living in Bangkok as a child, and opposite our street (Sukhumvit Soi 12) was a small English language bookshop called Asia...
View ArticleAgatha Christie Night at the Southbank
As you all know, Agatha Christie is one of my favourite writers and is probably solely responsible for my addiction to crime and mystery novels. No one forgets their first Christie, and the panel of...
View ArticleElephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie
I think this was my third favourite novel by Christie (after Murder on the Links and The Mysterious Mr. Quin), but I couldn’t remember exactly why as I had read it donkeys years ago. So perusing my...
View ArticleThe Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah
Please let no one open their mouths and find the gold cufflinks with the initials PIJ. Poirot returns with a bang in The Monogram Murders set in 1929 amongst the sumptuous art nouveau backdrop of the...
View ArticleEvent Recap: Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile with Sophie Hannah and John...
Last week I attended the Guardian Book Club where author Sophie Hannah and literary critic John Mullan discussed Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile. You may not know this already but I am a huge...
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