I'm writing the acknowledgments section of my Agatha Christie book this afternoon and wanted to share some of the other Christie books I particularly rate. Thread. hodderstoughton.aweb.page/p/a03b184c-789…
First up, two previous biographers. I stand on the shoulders of two fantastic researchers and writers, Janet Morgan's fabulously detailed and scrupulous mega-life of 1984... uk.bookshop.org/books/agatha-c…
Nov 21, 2020 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
So here we are yet again, history-lovers.
Can you truly credit that this was the week in the year 2020 that a certain national newspaper yet again published a list of 'history books of the year' without including a single one by a woman?
#HistoryBooksByWomen
I saw a comment on here yesterday that I now can't locate, but the tweeter summed it up perfectly:
Shocking if they did it deliberately.
But perhaps somehow even more shocking if it was an accident, and that they just didn't even think.