Posted by admin | Posted in Bestsellers | Posted on 09-05-2010
Tags: adversary, agatha, by, ebook, poirot
What have you read so far this New Year?
Here’s my list of the books I have managed to read this month.
children of Men by PD James
Wide Sargassa Sea by Jean Rhys
Dissolution by C J Sansom
Enchanted: Erotic Bedtime stories for Women by Nancy Madore – Adult content!
The Gospel of the Second Coming by Freke and Gandy
The Secret Adversary by agatha christie
Fish out of Water by MaryJanice Davidson
Morrigans Cross – Nora Roberts
Currently reading
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne on Sony Reader
Could it be Forever – David Cassidy
Little Women – Louise May Alcott on DS Lite
Dance of the Gods – Nora Roberts
It helps that I work nights, one to one patients sleep mostly, some are unconcious too as I work with patients who are at the end of their terminal illnesses
I’ve read these this month:
Terrier by Tamora Pierce (again!)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
The Lucky Bones by Alice Sebold
The Hunter Games by Suzanne Collins
The Shack by William Young
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling (again!)
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Foundling by MS Cornish
Currently reading:
The Lamplighter by MS Cornish
The Magician by Michael Scott
My Bonnie Light Horsemen by LA Meyer
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The Secret Adversary $2.99 … |
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Secret Adversary $1.99 This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery…. |
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles and Other Works by Agatha Christie (Halcyon Classics) $1.99 This Halcyon Classics ebook contains two classic tales of mystery by British author Agatha Christie: ‘The Secret Adversary’ and ‘The Mysterious Affair at Styles.’ Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation…. |
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The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence) $4.99 CLASSIC CHRISTIE AT A BARGAIN PRICE Originally published in 1922, the story finds Tuppence and Tommy grappling with various spies in their first adventure. While not a very well-known pair, Tuppence and Tommy are rather cute in this complex story, admirably tackling the many different forces that were part of England between the Wars…. |
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The Secret Adversary $4.99 A must-read for fans of stories from the Golden Age of Detective fiction, The Secret Adversary is Agatha Christie at her finest. In the midst of spinning an engrossing tale of adventure and international intrigue, Christie uses the novel to introduce the characters Tommy and Tuppence, both of whom figure in many of her books and short stories. |
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Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks $12.99 A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie’s seventy-three private notebooks, including illustrations and two unpublished Poirot stories When Agatha Christie died in 1976, at age eighty-five, she had become the world’s most popular author. With sales of more than two billion copies worldwide, in more than one hundred countries, she had achieved the impossible—more than one book every year since the 1920s, every one a bestseller. So prolific was Agatha Christie’s output—sixty-six crime novels, twenty plays, six romance novels under a pseudonym and more than one hundred and fifty short stories—it was often claimed that she had a photographic memory. Was this true? Or did she resort over those fifty-five years to more mundane methods of working out her ingenious crimes? Following the death of Agatha’s daughter, Rosalind, at the end of 2004, a remarkable legacy was revealed. Unearthed among her affairs at the family home of Greenway were Agatha Christie’s private notebooks, seventy-three handwritten volumes of notes, lists and drafts outlining all her plans for her many books, plays and stories. Buried in this treasure trove, all in her unmistakable handwriting, are revelations about her famous books that will fascinate anyone who has ever read or watched an Agatha Christie story. How did the infamous twist in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd really come about? Which very famous Poirot novel started life as an adventure for Miss Marple? Which books were designed to have completely differ-ent endings, and what were they? What were the plot ideas that she considered but rejected? Full of details she was too modest to reveal in her own autobiography, this remarkable new book includes a wealth of excerpts and pages reproduced directly from the notebooks and her letters, plus, for the first time, two newly discovered complete Hercule Poirot short stories never before published. |
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Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making $12.99 This follow-up to the Edgar-nominated Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks features Christie’s unpublished work, including an analysis of her last unfinished novel, and a foreword by the acclaimed actor David Suchet. In this invaluable work, the Agatha Christie expert and archivist John Curran examines the unpublished notebooks of the world’s bestselling author to explore the techniques she used to surprise and entertain generations of readers. Also drawing on Christie’s personal papers and letters, he reveals how more than twenty of her novels, as well as stage scripts, short stories, and some more personal items, evolved. As he addresses the last notebook, Curran uses his deep knowledge of Christie to offer an insightful, well-reasoned analysis of her final unfinished work, based on her notes. Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making features several wonderful gems, including Christie’s own essay on her famous detective, Hercule Poirot, written for a British national newspaper in the 1930s; a previously unseen version of a Miss Marple short story; and a courtroom chapter from her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles , which was edited out of the published version in 1920. A must-read for every Christie aficionado, Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making is a fascinating look into the mind and craft of one of the world’s most prolific and beloved authors, offering a deeper understanding of her impressive body of work. |