Agatha Christie: A biography Birthday Charts awakes on the morning of

awakes on the morning of his seventieth birthday and considers launching himself over the balcony

and why those ideals hold such power over our imagination

but times are volatile and danger is only ever a heartbeat away

where your kitchen always sparkles

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently

Agatha Christie: A biography Birthday Charts awakes on the morning ofJanet Morgan's definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the author. Agatha Christie (1890 1976), the world's bestselling author, is a public institution. Her creations, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, have become fiction's most legendary sleuths and her ingenuity has captured the imagination of generations of readers. But although she lived to a great age and was prolific, she remained elusively shy