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Giant's Bread: Novel
The story centres on composer Vernon Deyre, erroneously reported as killed in action in World War I. He assumes a new identity and wins acclaim in the music world. A romantic, but not sentimental story about real people, that allows Christie the room to develop her characters freely and in ...
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Unfinished Portrait: Novel
The plot concerns the rescue of a woman from suicide by an artist who then listens as she relates her life and experiences. This is more directly autobiographical than her earlier works under the name of Mary Westmacott and could, in parts, be seen as an 'unfinished portrait' of the ...
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While the Light Lasts: Short Story
In the excruciating heat of the African sun George Crozier is travelling with his new wife, Deidre. They have not been married long and George is aware his wife’s thoughts are with her first husband who was killed in this part of Africa during the war. In this hauntingly beautiful ...
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The Queen of Crime: The Queen of Crime
Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She has sold over two billion books worldwide and has been translated into over 45 languages. In a writing career that spanned more than half a century, Agatha Christie wrote eighty novels and short story collections. She also wrote over a ... -
Mary Westmacott: The Queen of Crime
To celebrate Agatha Christie’s centenary, Rosalind Hick’s, Agatha Christie's only daughter, wrote an essay on the Westmacott novels. We have reproduced this in part: As early as 1930, my mother wrote her first novel using the name “Mary Westmacott”. These novels, six in all, were a complete departure from the usual ... -
Giant's Bread:
Agatha Christie imbues this novel about the life of a somewhat tortured composer, Vernon Deyre, with her own obvious love ...
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Unfinished Portrait:
Reading this novel is almost like reading Agatha Christie’s autobiography. It’s so interesting to speculate about why Christie ...
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Absent in the Spring:
Joan Scudamore relishes the opportunity to spend a few days in the desert almost completely alone. She decides she can ...