Christie's life

Read all about Agatha Christie's life and how it influenced her writing.

Biography

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on 15 September 1890 in Torquay, England. Her father, Frederick, was an outgoing American with an independent income. Her ...

Christie's travels

While Agatha Christie's first experience of travel was to France, her first Society season was spent in fashionable Cairo. Most of her trip was ...

Living in Devon

Devon, glorious Devon – the idyllic background for Agatha Christie’s childhood, youth and later life, and the setting for no less than 15 of her ...

Christie in London

When Poirot first moves to London he shares accommodation with Captain Hastings at 14, Farraway Street before moving to Whitehaven Mansions. Although the novels are ...

Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Her story, in her own words and now in her own voice. This new release of Agatha Christie's autobiography includes a CD of the famous voice recordings she dictated forty years ago that were only discovered in 2008.

Come, Tell Me How You Live

Agatha Christie's fascinating and often humourous memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan.

Agatha Christie: An English Mystery

Agatha Christie is a mystery and writing about her is a detection job in itself. But, with access to all of Christie's letters, papers, and writing notebooks, as well as interviews with her grandson, daughter, son-in-law, and their living relations, Thompson is able to unravel not only the detailed workings of Christies detective fiction, but the truth behind her private life as well.

Agatha Christie: A Biography

Using family papers and other protected material, Janet Morgan sheds light on Agatha Christie's life, work and relationships.

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