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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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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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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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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Agatha Christie fans from around the world put on their glad rags for a glamorous Cocktails, Costumes, Cake and Cole Porter event at the Agatha Christie Festival’s Hub at Torquay’s Grand Hotel. They enjoyed delicious cocktails. delightful cakes to celebrate Agatha Christie’s birthday and listened and danced to a live band playing Cole Porter numbers. [...]
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Up to 2,000 pirates will be heading to the historic fishing port of Brixham on Devon’s English Riviera for the renowned Brixham Pirate Festival that attracts visitors from all over the world. The Pirate Festival sees the whole of picturesque Brixham Harbour with its colourful cottages, spectacular marina, half-mile long breakwater and pretty beach gripped [...]
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There’s so much family fun to be had on Devon’s English Riviera with spectacular coast walks and lots of Easter events and attractions. Easter Hunt at Bygones, Torquay – on now and until 7 April Children’s FREE Easter Hunt is included in admission price. Step back in time with Bygones – an authentic life-size Victorian Street [...]
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The English Riviera knows how to rock a good festival. Here are a couple of the very quirkiest for 2013: NEW! INVASION OF GREAT GORILLAS – 3rd August – 13th October Gorillas on the English Riviera! Yes, legendary Paignton Zoo is celebrating 90 years of conservation work with a mass invasion of Great Gorillas around [...]
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Scott of the Antarctic and the Devon Connection – 100th Anniversary Exhibition at Torquay Museum A fascinating and poignant exhibition that celebrates Captain Scott’s renowned expedition to the Antarctic 100 years after he reached the South Pole, and explores the expedition’s Devon connections, will open at Torquay Museum on Friday 7th December. Scott and four [...]
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