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‘One of those rare gems that comes to the reviewer out of the blue . . . enough twists to shame a cobra . . . the story fairly rips along, defying the reader to put the book down . . . Christine Poulson should be heralded as the fine entrant to the world of crime fiction she most certainly is.’ [Stage Fright]

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Christie’s Death Comes as the End

Posted on Dec 8, 2015 in Agatha Christie, Death Comes as the End, Egypt, Egypt: Faith after the Pharaohs | 4 Comments

After I’d seen the splendid Egypt: Faith after the Pharaohs at the British Museum, I went to the London Library and got out Agatha Christie’s Come Tell Me How You Live. She published it in 1945 under her married name of Agatha Christie Mallowan, and it is an account of the trips to the Syria that […]

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Egypt: Faith After the Pharaohs

Posted on Nov 17, 2015 in British Museum, Egypt, Faith after the Pharoahs, Paris, William Penn | 2 Comments

Last week I visited this exhibition at the British Museum. It covers a period of twelve centuries from 30 BC, when Egypt became part of the Roman Empire, to AD 1171 and tells the story of the shift from the traditional worship of many gods to the monotheism. When Constantine was converted to Christianity, Christianity […]

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