In her autobiography Agatha Christie refers several times to her regret that she has never been regarded as a serious novelist. Perhaps to rectify this she wrote six novels under the pseudonym ...

Aldridge has an easygoing style that is appropriate to his subject, a deceptively mild-mannered observer of human foibles ...

By the turn of the 20th century, the cove became reserved for women only as 'The Ladies Bathing Cove', which became a favourite of Agatha ... In her autobiography Christie recalled a time where ...

As New York and Philadelphia became hubs for publishing in the United States, there was a need to sell more books to a ...

There are two crimes under investigation in this latest Rebus adventure, but readers will have to be alert if they are to stand a chance of solving them, writes Stuart Kelly ...

A small pebble cove away from a bustling high street in Devon is home to stories from throughout history and was one of ...

If the new fall book season looks overwhelming — Al Pacino’s memoirs, and a new Haruki Murakami epic? — if you’re about to ...

Dogs of War BBC Four, 10pm Mercenary in both senses of the word, Dave Tomkins was a bit-part player in David Whitney’s ...

Princess Victoria Ka’iulani Cleghorn was a keen surfer, a friend of writer Robert Louis Stevenson and the last Crown Princess ...

I tend only to read novels by women these days, a trend which started a few years ago when I encountered, in close succession, the short stories ...