International interest continues to grow in Torbay’s next, 125th anniversary, Agatha Christie festival with ticket sales and accommodation bookings already coming in from fans in places as far flung as Australia, Brazil, China and India and with reports on the festival appearing in media outlets as diverse as Voice of America’s Farsi service, an [...]
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Now in its 10th Year, South Devon’s popular Agatha Christie Festival has repositioned itself as a major international crime writing literary festival. This September top crime authors including Sophie Hannah, author of the brand-new Poirot novel The Monogram Murders, will gather on the English Riviera, birthplace of world-famous crime writer Agatha Christie. Glamorous literary and [...]
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The English Riviera Tourism Company (ERTC) and its partners celebrated a prestigious win at the national VisitEngland Awards for Excellence winning silver for Visitor Information Provider of the Year. Beating rivals across the country, including London, this national award is the pinnacle of a long run of increasingly high profile awards won by the tourism [...]
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Best-selling authors Kate Mosse and Simon Brett were special guests at a Literary Panel event at the Agatha Christie Festival Hub at the Grand Hotel, Torquay. Both authors spoke about their inspirations drawn from Agatha Christie. Kate Mosse said that Agatha Christie’s Body in the Library was the very first book she actively chose for [...]
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Top-billing crime and thriller author Val McDermid was the special guest at the Agatha Christie Festival Literary Dinner at Torquay’s Grand Hotel. Val spoke about how she had been heavily influenced in her early years by Agatha Christie’s work and in particular she remembered her early reading of The Murder at the Vicarage. McDermid is [...]
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The international bestselling crime writer, Sophie Hannah, who is to write a new Agatha Christie novel, appeared at the famous Agatha Christie Festival. Appearing with Sophie were Mathew Prichard (Agatha Christie’s Grandson), David Brawn (HarperCollins) and John Curran (author Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks). The new novel will feature Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective who Agatha [...]
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Guests brought out their beads, dusted off their feather boas, and sharpened their skills of detection for The Reunion, an exciting murder mystery at Churston’s Weary Ploughman. Dressing up in 30′s style for the evening of glamour and intrigue, suspects sipped on Christie-themed cocktails and enjoyed a delicious three-course dinner while the drama unfolded. The [...]
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A Garden Party To Die For was held in the Potent Plants Garden at Torre Abbey. Guests dressed in their period finery met the Head Gardener Ali Marshall, learned about Agatha Christie’s potent and poisonous plants and her time as a pharmacy assistant in Torquay. With a 1930s theme: music, servants, bubbly, tea and cake [...]
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Guests in period costume boarded the Riviera Belle Dining Train for an evening of murder and mystery. The evening’s plot was set in motion by the Candlelight Theatre Company with cuisine provided by Hennessy Restaurant in Torquay. It was a glamorous night of cocktails and dining with clues and plenty of intrigue and part of [...]
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Agatha Christie fans congregated at Kents Cavern, the English Riviera’s home of archaeology for a three-course dinner, tour of the caves and talk from eminent archaeologist Dr Joan Oates, who worked at Nimrud with Max Mallowan and his wife Agatha Christie-Mallowan. With a brief introduction to Nimrud, the after dinner talk focused on on their [...]
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