Based on the authors' long-running podcast, The Swinging Christies brings Agatha Christie into vivid focus as a real woman writing contemporary crime fiction while navigating a tumultuous and thrilling decade.Widely perceived as a writer of cosy, old-fashioned mysteries rooted in the interwar years, Agatha Christie was in fact one of the most culturally engaged authors of the 1960s.Far from being a relic of a bygone era, Christie lived at the heart of Swinging Lond...

Based on the authors' long-running podcast, The Swinging Christies brings Agatha Christie into vivid focus as a real woman writing contemporary crime fiction while navigating a tumultuous and thrilling decade.Widely perceived as a writer of cosy, old-fashioned mysteries rooted in the interwar years, Agatha Christie was in fact one of the most culturally engaged authors of the 1960s.Far from being a relic of a bygone era, Christie lived at the heart of Swinging Lond...