Reading English Books Together

Did you know that well over 2 billion copies of Agatha Christie's books are sold every year across the globe? No matter how ingenuous and relevant modern crime fiction authors try to be, none of them has been able to match Dame Agatha's massive popularity. Read our post below to discover why her books have timeless appeal. ‘Reading Christie is like being taken for a pleasant garden tour by a gardener who really loves flowers and wants you to love them, too’, wrote James Zemboy, the author of ‘The Detective Novels Of Agatha Christie: A Reader's Guide’. It seems inconceivable that reading a murder mystery book could be compared to walking in a lovely garden but it can and there are a few reasons for it. First of all, Agatha Christie avoided violence. She wrote: ‘I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest’. In her books you will never see a murder actually happen. Under no circumstances do her amateur sleuths, Poirot or Miss Marple, threaten anyone with ...

Did you know that ... a. Agatha Christie never went to school or to college b. Agatha Christie's mother didn't want to teach her to read and Agatha had learnt it herself by the age of 5 c. Agatha Christie began writing crime novels because her elder sister challenged her to do it Read our post below to learn these and other facts about Agatha Christie Agatha Christie, the famous English detective novelist, was a very modest person and each time she was asked about the secret of her unprecedented popularity, she said that people liked her books but who could say why… So unconvinced was Agatha Christie of her literary talent that she prophesized: ‘Once I’ve been dead ten years I am sure nobody will ever have heard of me’. She couldn’t have been more wrong. She died in 1976 and now 41 years after her death she is still the world’s most read author outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have been translated into about 100 languages and according to The Index Tr...