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Mothers of the Mind by Rachel Trethewey

14 September 2023 By Editor

Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Plath are three of our most famous authors. For the first time this book tells in full the story of the remarkable mothers who shaped them. Julia Stephen, Clara Miller and Aurelia Plath were fascinating women in their own rights, and their relationships with their daughters were exceptional; they […]

On Writing Agatha Christie

19 December 2016 By Alison Joseph

Agatha Christie

Alison Joseph on bringing a a literary legend to life. Georges Simenon once wrote a playful little volume called Maigret’s Memoirs. It is a witty, insightful piece of work, in which Maigret attempts to put the record straight about what happened when this odd little man called Georges Sim was given permission by the French […]

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