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Torquay
Ahead of the start of the Literary Festival, we are hosting an informal mix and mingle event to allow guests to meet each other over a drink or two. We will be providing details of the (rather nice) location a bit closer to the event.
Participatory Event
Paignton
We are working with Libraries Unlimited to present our first ever mystery writer day for children and young people. More details coming soon.
Children's
Torre, Torquay
Join us for this very special service celebrating the life of Agatha Christie, in the church where she was baptised and her family worshipped. Led by Father Peter March, this promises to be a very special event in a significant setting which Agatha…
Religious Event
Torquay
Join us for an afternoon garden party at Wylam House, a spectacular and historic villa in the most desirable area of Torquay. The house (then called ‘Kya Lami’) was visited by a young Agatha Miller and her family when they were friends with the…
Murder Mystery
The Kings Drive, Torquay
Agatha Christie wrote her first mystery novel during the First World War, and reflected a world in turmoil. At the height of her career during the Second World War, global conflict shaped her work and how it was read, even as the adventures of Miss…
Talk or Lecture
Torquay
HarperCollins’ head of literary estates David Brawn marks 30 years in his role as Agatha Christie’s publisher by taking us behind the scenes of her UK publishing house and giving a unique insight into how the author’s complete canon of novels and…
Talk or Lecture
Torquay
While best known for her detective stories and thrillers, Agatha Christie also wrote many stories of the supernatural, many of which were collected in The Last Séance. The occult and supernatural themes appear in many of her novels and stories,…
Spooky / Ghosts / Dark Tourism
Torquay
Included in Torre Abbey entrance price
Cover artist Tom Adams created numerous iconic Agatha Christie book covers, mostly in the 1960s, '70s and '80s but also as recently as the 2010s. Thanks to the generosity of Georgie Adams, Tom’s widow, and her…
Exhibition
St Marychurch, Torquay
Between 1941 and 1947 Agatha Christie lived in the Lawn Road Flats in Hampstead, Britain’s first Modernist apartment block. Advertised during the Blitz, as the “safest building in London”, it was here, living in a tiny, 25-square-metre Minimum…
Talk or Lecture
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