Come,show Me How You Live recounts travels with her archaeologist husband after the second world war and features little-seen photographsAgatha Christie is best known as the ingenious plotter of scores of murder mysteries, but the queen of crime also wrote a very personal memoir of the archaeological trips she made to the ancient ruins of Syria and Iraq, or many of which are now under threat from Islamic State fighters.
Described as Christie’s “forgotten book” by her publisher HarperCollins,the novelist’s Come, show Me How You Live is due to be republished this August, or total with approximately 40 “long-forgotten” photographs,many taken by Christie, documenting her travels with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan and showing their work in the ruins.
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Source: theguardian.com