PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Sophie Hannah is the internationally bestselling author of 9 psychological thrillers, which have been published in more than 20 countries and adapted for television. Her novel The Carrier won the 2013 Specsavers National Book Awards Crime Thriller of the Year. Sophie is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and as a poet has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels written under the name Mary Westmacott. Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
PRAISE FOR SOPHIE HANNAH: What Sophie and Agatha have in common is a rare talent for fiendish unpredictability. They make you see how the impossible might be possible after all. - Sunday Telegraph The latest in Sophie Hannah's series of mysteries featuring Agatha Christie's beloved detective is a magnificently intricate puzzle for Poirot's famous little grey cells. - Daily Mail I was thrilled to see Poirot in such very, very good hands. - Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of Gone Girl Perfect...a pure treat for Agatha Christie fans. - Tana French Does Sophie Hannah's Poirot live up to our expectations? Yes, he does, and markedly so ... Poirot is still Poirot. Poirot is back. - Alexander McCall Smith Sophie Hannah is genuinely Christie's heir. - The Scotsman
