November 2024 – Dr Mark Aldridge

I’m very excited about a special treat for the end of this year – I’ll be visiting the glorious Burgh Island to talk about Agatha Christie at Christmas on the afternoon of 10 December. What could be a better treat for the festive season?!

For those who don’t know, Burgh Island has many Christie connections, from influencing the likes of Evil Under the Sun and And Then There Were None, to as a filming location for adaptations in the Joan Hickson Miss Marple and David Suchet Poirot series.

You can book a special stay for the event on the Burgh Island Hotel’s website, or call/email them to book my talk and afternoon tea if you’re not able to stay (details at the link). I have a long history with the island but this will be the first time I’m actually staying at the hotel, and I can’t wait!

It’s been a busy couple of months with the launch of my new book Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness, now out worldwide. The UK publication neatly coincided with the International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay, which meant there were plenty of opportunities to discuss my work. This included sell-out talks on both Miss Marple and, with Gray Robert Brown, our podcast The Swinging Christies. We even teamed up with Kemper Donovan of All About Agatha for a special crossover episode!

Elsewhere, I’ve been doing plenty of publicity, including an appearance on ITV’s Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh, which you can watch below. We were keenly overlooked by quite the collection of Miss Marples!

It had been lovely to see the positive reception that my book has received. I was particularly thrilled to get such a good write-up from Nicola Upson in the Times Literary Supplement.

I have plenty of plans in place for next year, including two projects that I was the consultant for. I’m very excited about them, but can’t say much more yet! All will be revealed in the next couple of months…

Month: November 2024

Christmas on Burgh Island!

Book launch – and publicity!