Midge Gillies Ordine dei libri

From Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith to Val McDermid and JK Rowling, After Agatha is an indispensable guide to women's crime writing over the last century and an exploration of why women read crime...

A people's history of Piccadilly: London's bustling meeting place for over a century.

The short stories in this collection are a varied selection from Midge's writings, part fact, part fiction, some whimsy and some with more serious intent. Midge worked visiting elderly and vulnerable people in their homes. Characters and incidents fondly remembered from this time have provided the inspiration for many of these stories.

The conventional picture of Allied POWs in the World War II prisoner-of-war camps is of escape attempts (Colditz and The Great Escape) or terrible brutality (the Far Eastern camps and The Bridge on the River Kwai). But what did the men really do all day? In fact, as this extraordinary and acclaimed book shows, British prisoners showed the most amazing ingenuity and determination to turn their camp into a hive of every kind of activity.