This miscellany explores the fascinating and enigmatic world created by the undisputed ‘Queen of Crime’, Agatha Christie. Examining her place in literary hi

This new and revised edition of Hilary Macaskill's classic book, with many new illustrations, offers an insight into the life and work of the world's bestsellin

Jane Austen is the world's bestselling novelist – 200 years after her death. We seem to have a never-ending appetite for the swooning of Sense & Sensibility;

Agatha Christie’s ‘most absorbing mystery’ – her own autobiography.

It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant and award winning biographer, L