Travels with Agatha Christie
David Suchet: Travels with Agatha Christie (Constable 2025) David Suchet is best known for portrayingAgatha Christie’s famous detective Hercule Poirot for 25 years, but he has also had a number of other roles: in his youth he played Inspector Japp alongside Peter Ustinov’s Poirot. In his opinion, an actor should not own a role, everyone should be given the opportunity to play the character, so he wishes future Poirots all the best. He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and was knighted in 2022. He has two grown-up children and currently lives in London with his wife. In the summer of 2024, he was given the opportunity to travel around the world in the footsteps of Agatha Christie, the author who participate in the international tour of the British Empire in 1922. David Suchet completed the then 10-month tour in 57 days, during which he traveled to 6…
The style of Esme Young
Esme Young: Behind the Seams (Bonnier Books 2022) Most people know fashion designer Esme Young from the show The Great British Sewing Bee, which ran for the 12th time this year in the United Kingdom with unbroken success. In the show, hobby seamstresses introduce themselves and compare their skills to decide who is the best in Great Britain that year. In each show, they have to demonstrate their skills in three tasks: sewing from a pattern, altering, and making a custom-made garment. A two-person jury evaluates their work: Esme Young and Patrick Grant. However, Esme Young already had a significant career behind her when she joined the show. She had been interested in clothes since childhood and was able to truly express herself through her drawings. She made her first garment at the age of seven. She studied at a boarding school at a young age, and later graduated as…
Seaside romance
Haley Pham: Just Friends (Atria Books 2026) Blair and Declan have been inseparable since childhood. They knew each other better than they knew themselves. They waited until the end of high school to confess their feelings for each other, but unfortunately their story took a negative turn and they ended up breaking up with anger and sadness. Now, four years later, Blair returns to her seaside hometown of Seabrook to help her mother to care for her aunt Lottie. In order to do something and earn a little money, Blair takes a job at a coffee shop – only to discover that it is run by none other than Declan. The boy she loved the most in the world and whose loss she still hasn’t gotten over. Will they have a second chance? What is more important to them: the past or the future? I don’t like romantic stories, but…