Agatha Christie by Laura Thompson
A definitive biography of the author, now fully updated with a new introduction to mark 100 years of Agatha Christie publishing
Thompson does a superlatives job at digging beneath the surface of this public but private woman.. her prose here is elegantly turned and concise - and perfectly at the service of its enigmatic subject. * Crime Time *
Laura Thompson won the Somerset Maugham Award with her first book, The Dogs. She wrote a biographical study of Nancy Mitford, Life in a Cold Climate, and a group biography of the Mitfords, Take Six Girls, which was a New York Times bestseller. She has also written two books about real life murders: A Different Class of Murder, about the Lord Lucan case, and the CWA Dagger-nominated Rex V Edith Thompson. Her memoir of her publican grandmother, The Last Landlady, was nominated three times as a 2018 book of the year. She lives in Richmond.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781472269560 |
| ISBN 10 | 147226956X |
| Title | Agatha Christie |
| Author | Laura Thompson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Headline Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2020-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 576 |
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