“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Anyone who knows their Agatha Christie, KNOWS this book. The David Suchet episode was actually filmed at Greenway, Agatha’s home in Devon. Synopsis : Ariadne Oliver, Writer of Crime Fiction, has been invited to write, plan, execute a Murder Mystery Hunt at Nasse House, ancestral home of the Folliat family. Not to give the plot […]
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Ref previous post. Ian Carmichael played Dr. Frank with M&W but for some reason………. Maybe Mum’s addiction to the radio (?) his voice always reminds me of Bertie Wooster. The diction. The precision. Then, decades later, I watched Fry and Laurie. And remembered reading P.G. Wodehouse. And Carmichael’s voice. Strange as can bee or not […]
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Weird video but interesting. I have a love/don’t like relationship with Poe. Murders in the Rue Morgue (imho) is just plain silly. “Once upon a midnight dreary” The Raven is sublime. The Fall of the House of Usher is wonderfully creepy etc etc. But marrying a 12/13 year cousin…THAT is not very nice :o( Strange […]
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If you’ve read the book above…… Midnight is a Lonely Place. Kate Kennedy, intent on finishing her new book on Byron and suffering from the aftermath of an affair, rents a cottage on the bleak Essex coast. But Alison Lindsey, daughter of the people who own it, has been excavating what she thinks is a Roman grave […]
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TY, Ms. Tatar. I’m loving your work but it’s just a little too heavy for my one functioning brainy cell today :o( Sigh.
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Was a major character in my novel. I spent many years researching her. She was the second wife of Henri Quatre, mother of Louis XIII (husband of Anne of Austria), Gaston d’Orleans (husband of Marie de Montpensier), Elisabeth (wife of Felipe IV of Spain), Chrestienne (wife of Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy) and Henriette […]
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OK. I understand now why Maria Tatar came to me a few days ago. I’ve download a sample of the image above book. When I can earn a living from living – I will buy said book. Maria Tatar cites Bruno Bettleheim —- Uses of Enchantment. A book that I bought many years ago and […]
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Woah Back. I’m more up-to-date than I thought. The vidja below was uploaded a week ago. Woohooooo! Anyways….If you’ve read/loved/read again M.C. Beaton’s Hamish Macbeth books, you’ll know ALL about Sonsie. The Highland Wild Cat that he found dying on his doorstep one day. And how he just about bankrupted himself to save Sonsie’s life. […]
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Just before the year 1000 a young Viking named Thorvald the Far-farer turned his back on the pagan gods of his fathers to preach the Christian gospel, travelling to Jerusalem, the golden heart of all medieval world maps. A thousand years later Victoria Clark retraces his epic voyage to discover how the dramatic events of […]
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Discover the novels that inspired the hit ITV series Midsomer Murders, seen and loved by millions. Death of a Hollow Man is the second instalment in the Midsomer Murders series, featuring Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby with an audience of 10.34 million. Featuring an exclusive foreword by John Nettles, ITV’s DCI Tom Barnaby. Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Ann Granger […]
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Along with Mum’s Enid Blyton books that I read voraciously as a child in Nan’s home were many others. Including a book of Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairy Tales. Seeing the wiki page for HCA – The Little Mermaid and the image above gave me such a jolt. Is this why I […]
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The video below just started playing and it reminded me of another of my EngLit exam books. The Crucible : Arthur Miller I remember little of the text, just a feeling of sadness for what happened. We were even taught about the allegory part of the play… anti-McCathyism or whatever it was called.
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Hidden History Research 