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Travels with Agatha Christie
In 1922, a young Agatha Christie, still at the dawn of her literary career, received an incredible opportunity. Britain was preparing for a grand festival - the British Empire Exhibition - to be held in Wembley in 1924. But such an ambitious event needed planning, and Agatha and her husband, Archie, were asked to help. Would they like to travel to different parts of the Empire to assist in its preparation? Naturally, their answer was a resounding yes.
Nearly a century later, the legendary Sir David Suchet and his wife Sheila were invited to retrace Agatha's remarkable journey. In Travels with Agatha Christie, Suchet - renowned for his iconic portrayal of Hercule Poirot - follows in Agatha's footsteps, visiting the diverse landscapes of South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and Canada. With his trademark charm and warmth, and insightful reflections, David not only explores the enduring legacy of the British Empire but also uncovers the profound impact these travels had on a young Agatha Christie, shaping her future as the Queen of Crime.
Rich with personal anecdotes, David's own stunning photography and fascinating history, Travels with Agatha Christie offers a fresh, intimate look at the woman behind the distinguished mysteries. Through David's eyes, we gain a deeper understanding of Agatha's early writing, her love for adventure and the lasting influence of her travels on her creative journey. A captivating blend of history, travel and personal insight, this book reveals a side of Agatha Christie that few know.
Nearly a century later, the legendary Sir David Suchet and his wife Sheila were invited to retrace Agatha's remarkable journey. In Travels with Agatha Christie, Suchet - renowned for his iconic portrayal of Hercule Poirot - follows in Agatha's footsteps, visiting the diverse landscapes of South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and Canada. With his trademark charm and warmth, and insightful reflections, David not only explores the enduring legacy of the British Empire but also uncovers the profound impact these travels had on a young Agatha Christie, shaping her future as the Queen of Crime.
Rich with personal anecdotes, David's own stunning photography and fascinating history, Travels with Agatha Christie offers a fresh, intimate look at the woman behind the distinguished mysteries. Through David's eyes, we gain a deeper understanding of Agatha's early writing, her love for adventure and the lasting influence of her travels on her creative journey. A captivating blend of history, travel and personal insight, this book reveals a side of Agatha Christie that few know.
256 pages, Hardcover
Published January 13, 2026
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128 books133 followersDavid Suchet, CBE is an English actor best known known for his work on the stage and British television, for which he has earned international praise.
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January 30, 2026
In the very early years of her writing career Agatha Christie spent months travelling across what was then the British Empire. Around 100 years later actor David Suchet and his wife make the same journey. Having played Hercule Poirot for 25 years Suchet knows a lot about Christie, but on this journey he discovered a lot more.
This is a wonderful book with plenty of anecdotes and it is enhanced by a wealth of excellent photographs taken by Suchet himself. It's a great read for fans of travel, history, Agatha Christie and David Suchet. An absolute delight.
This is a wonderful book with plenty of anecdotes and it is enhanced by a wealth of excellent photographs taken by Suchet himself. It's a great read for fans of travel, history, Agatha Christie and David Suchet. An absolute delight.
January 25, 2026
interesting book detailing the actor following Agatha Christie Empire tour of the early 1920's
Review of advance copy received from Publisher
Wow. . . I devoured this! I really did. Read on a relaxing Christmas day evening, this is a must for all Agatha Christie Fans. David Suchet IS Poirot for me, from my childhood spending time watching this programme on the BBC, I quickly became impressed with this little, intelligent man. That obsession continued into my adult life.
Set in the summer of 2024, DS and his wife chronicled their journey mirroring that of Agatha Christie and her husband Archie, completed in 1922 whilst assisting in the research/set up for The British Empire Exhibition.
Beautifully told, written, documented and photographed by DS himself, this was such an informative read that any Agatha Christie Fan will truly love.
Set in the summer of 2024, DS and his wife chronicled their journey mirroring that of Agatha Christie and her husband Archie, completed in 1922 whilst assisting in the research/set up for The British Empire Exhibition.
Beautifully told, written, documented and photographed by DS himself, this was such an informative read that any Agatha Christie Fan will truly love.
November 19, 2025
I had already watched the TV programme presented by the brilliant David Suchet so I knew a bit of what to expect from the book and it didn't disappoint.
Agatha Christie and her then husband Archie went on a tour of the British Empire in 1922 to document their findings in the aid of preparing a huge empire exhibition at Wembley stadium 2 years later.
David and his wife Sheila follow in their footsteps over 100 years later, visiting exactly the same places and seeing what Agatha would have seen and what's changed. This book was interesting, sometimes moving and informative, complimented wonderfully by some of David's own fantastic photographs taken on this trip.
Agatha Christie and her then husband Archie went on a tour of the British Empire in 1922 to document their findings in the aid of preparing a huge empire exhibition at Wembley stadium 2 years later.
David and his wife Sheila follow in their footsteps over 100 years later, visiting exactly the same places and seeing what Agatha would have seen and what's changed. This book was interesting, sometimes moving and informative, complimented wonderfully by some of David's own fantastic photographs taken on this trip.
February 6, 2026
3.5 stars rounded down, only because it felt a little… light?… I finished but felt like we skimmed over the various bits of travel without ever really getting into any depth, compared to watching the documentary episodes that this trip was creating.
March 24, 2026
Very nice fotos. But not much to tell about Agatha Christie.
July 24, 2026
This was equal parts fun and compelling. A very simple, and relatively short read that uses Suchet's (the character of Poirot) specific pilgrimage, retracing the steps of the beloved author during a particular and important time in her life, as a way to bring the true to life figure to life for us as readers.
I read it on my own travels to Torquay, and the book was a great companion piece for helping to unpack why she matters to this literary history. Figured I would use my reflections as a review here:
Meeting The Legacy of a Quiet, Strong, Complicated Mystery Writer and Revolutionary: Walking in the Footsteps of Agatha Christie
David Suchet, whom helped bring Agatha Christie’s iconic detective, Hercule Poirot, to life on the small screen from 1989 to 2013, wrote a recently released book called Travels With Agatha Christie, in which he, along with his wife Sheila, retrace the steps of her early promotional tour for the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 (which became known as the Empire Mission Tour). As Suchet suggests, “Agatha used her own life in her novels, and it leaps off the page,” and this particular moment in Agatha’s life becomes a window into the world she once occupied and a way into understanding some of the key events shaping her life within that world at the time.
All along the way, with his own journey finding the same world a century later, Suchet provides a contrast between these two vantage points, both as a means of bringing a full bodied view of Christie to the surface with all of it’s wanted complexities, but also as a grander witness to the ways in which story endures and is perserved through the passage of time.
For perspective, “By the time Agatha was on this expedition, the British Empire covered around 35.5 million square Kilometers across the world, roughly a quarter of the earth’s total land area.” This was “just following the First World War,” Agatha being 31, married, and the mother of two,” having just published her second book (The Secret Adversary).
What’s at once admirable and revealing about Suchet’s approach here is, he never uses the contrast of these “worlds apart” perspectives, this visible gap that exists between the world he is now encountering through hearing the stories of those whom “the Empire had tried to exclude” and the world Chrstie would have known back in 1922, to diminish the validity of her story. Rather, he uses it to capture a more nuanced conversation about the ways in which we discover the important figures of our childhood and our culture.
By getting to know Christie, and indeed Christie’s text, “in her world,” we can begin to appreciate who she was and why she told these stories. It becomes a unique point of analysis to locate her stories in the midst of a modern world now beginning to be thrown into question in the aftermath of the war. War permeates so much of Christie’s stories. As she is embarking on this Empire Mission Tour, signs are all around her depicting an already crumbling Empire. One of the more fascinating aspects of her life and her stories is that this is the reality in which her notoriety really begins to take off all around the world (as Suchet says, her books are second in sales only to the Bible). In many ways, her stories stand in the gap between the shifting tides of two world Empires, Britain on one side, America on the other, bearing witness to a global literary legacy that retains its roots in England defined through a sort of prophettic restlessnes with modernism itself. In a very personal way, this disilluisonment with the world emerges in her later stories as well, following a devastating affair and divorce, the thing that sparks what then becomes an enduring love for train travel (deciding to head out on the Orient Express, a life long dream, in order to seek a fresh start of outside of the public eye)
Agatha is defined as a woman with a hidden exuberance and quirky personality, passionate and pious, someone whom carved a deep love for the sea, for travel for the natural world, and for people. Who’s personal story quietly transformed the world of her encounters as a strong, independent woman and spirit, translating her own feminist concerns into a simple act of doing and being who she is in the face of so much uncertainty (read up on her surfing exploits, you won’t regret it). In his most apt descriptive, Suchet describes her as being “very sensitive to the world,” translating that to her deep felt need for drawing out real and honest characters through her stories.
“One must do things by oneself sometimes. Either I cling to everything that’s safe and that I know, or else I develop more initiative, do things on my own.” (Agatha Christie)
I talked about some of the ways my choice to switch from the car to the train ultimately ended up sacrificing and/or throwing into chaos certain parts of my trip in my previous blog in this space. One of the very real things I gained, an experience I wouldn’t otherwise have had, was the chance to enter into Christie’s story via the mode of transport she most loved. The simple joy of travelling this particular route along the coast up to Torquay, her place of birth and her continued home, is magical. A ride in which every turn brings a different seaside village or ocean vantage point into view.
Hearing her story, I spent some time thinking about my own solo trip, a product of our present life situation in which certain responsibilities have limited my wife and I from being able to travel together the way we have for most our married life. I feel the anxiety of that once powerful push against this idea of getting creative with our plans, with this concept of venturing out on my own bringing deep feelings of uncertainty. I feel the tension she describes, in making sense of how such points of initiative fit with the fact that none of us are ever truly doing anything “on our own.” This revelation from Christie is not so much a wanted grasp of a sought after individualism, but an invitation to keep the world that is shaping her in view, in times when life threatens to bury it. To hold fast to that simple need to be a participant in this thing we call life. For Christie, the bigger the world became, the more meaningful home becomes.
Torquay is her home, of which she describes it as “my home, off and on, nearly all my life.” It sits at the heart of what has been coined the English Riviera. This is a place where the waters carry a rich bluish tinge and the streets a golden hue, where the emergence of the sun, which I got to witness from my deck as the clouds finally cleared, giving way to its setting, reveals a once hidden space that before didn’t exist. Dig a little deeper and you find the long standing economic struggles that seperates the town from the enchantment of its High Street, This remains the modern shape of the town, and I found it equally interesting to read through the present state of its politics and the ambitious plans for revitalization that is reimagining and reshaping the immediate future of the area. But to gain a glimpse into Christie’s world, the immediate interest is in walking what is called the Agatha Christie mile.
I could recount my own experiences here of walking in her footsteps, but this was my guide, and it does a wonderful job of bringing these spaces alive. For me, I booked a seaside room at the Imperial Hotel overlooking Beacon Cove, the place where she once thrilled over the simple act of bathing in the sea. For my part, arriving at that train station and stepping off on to the same platform, walking down the same streets, imagining the area that once was her home, seeing the plant collection that inspired her more fun, maccabre sensibilities, strolling the same shorelines that continue to define her conception of “home,” it led me to think more deeply about what it means to love the homes that we have inherited. This is the thing Agatha Christie modeled, this practice of expanding our view of the world, an act that this pilgrimage was opening up for me in this very moment, while simitaneously allowing that to shape our participation in the homes we have inherited. And what lies behind that is the similar revelation which shapes all of the literary voices of my childhood: the powerful role that story plays in binding these two things together.
Christie never got to see the world that Suchet is encountering in his travels today. In some ways it’s quite a different space. In many ways it’s very much the same. It’s the fact that Christie lived her life in the world that was right in front of her that felt so poignant to me. It’s a reminder that, for all the ways in which the modern world sells its myth of progress, this problematic way of measuring our present based on scapegoating the past and the valourization of an illusioned future only serves to bury the world that is right in front of us, disconnecting us from the real invitation. This is what Suchet intuitively picks up on in “minding the gap” between Christie’s travels and his own, something that Christie’s own journey observes through the acts of writing and creating it inspired: this modern myth can only ever condemn the world we are called to inhabit. To inhabit the world that is right in front us, as Christie so modeled, is to learn how to love it.
I read it on my own travels to Torquay, and the book was a great companion piece for helping to unpack why she matters to this literary history. Figured I would use my reflections as a review here:
Meeting The Legacy of a Quiet, Strong, Complicated Mystery Writer and Revolutionary: Walking in the Footsteps of Agatha Christie
David Suchet, whom helped bring Agatha Christie’s iconic detective, Hercule Poirot, to life on the small screen from 1989 to 2013, wrote a recently released book called Travels With Agatha Christie, in which he, along with his wife Sheila, retrace the steps of her early promotional tour for the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 (which became known as the Empire Mission Tour). As Suchet suggests, “Agatha used her own life in her novels, and it leaps off the page,” and this particular moment in Agatha’s life becomes a window into the world she once occupied and a way into understanding some of the key events shaping her life within that world at the time.
All along the way, with his own journey finding the same world a century later, Suchet provides a contrast between these two vantage points, both as a means of bringing a full bodied view of Christie to the surface with all of it’s wanted complexities, but also as a grander witness to the ways in which story endures and is perserved through the passage of time.
For perspective, “By the time Agatha was on this expedition, the British Empire covered around 35.5 million square Kilometers across the world, roughly a quarter of the earth’s total land area.” This was “just following the First World War,” Agatha being 31, married, and the mother of two,” having just published her second book (The Secret Adversary).
What’s at once admirable and revealing about Suchet’s approach here is, he never uses the contrast of these “worlds apart” perspectives, this visible gap that exists between the world he is now encountering through hearing the stories of those whom “the Empire had tried to exclude” and the world Chrstie would have known back in 1922, to diminish the validity of her story. Rather, he uses it to capture a more nuanced conversation about the ways in which we discover the important figures of our childhood and our culture.
By getting to know Christie, and indeed Christie’s text, “in her world,” we can begin to appreciate who she was and why she told these stories. It becomes a unique point of analysis to locate her stories in the midst of a modern world now beginning to be thrown into question in the aftermath of the war. War permeates so much of Christie’s stories. As she is embarking on this Empire Mission Tour, signs are all around her depicting an already crumbling Empire. One of the more fascinating aspects of her life and her stories is that this is the reality in which her notoriety really begins to take off all around the world (as Suchet says, her books are second in sales only to the Bible). In many ways, her stories stand in the gap between the shifting tides of two world Empires, Britain on one side, America on the other, bearing witness to a global literary legacy that retains its roots in England defined through a sort of prophettic restlessnes with modernism itself. In a very personal way, this disilluisonment with the world emerges in her later stories as well, following a devastating affair and divorce, the thing that sparks what then becomes an enduring love for train travel (deciding to head out on the Orient Express, a life long dream, in order to seek a fresh start of outside of the public eye)
Agatha is defined as a woman with a hidden exuberance and quirky personality, passionate and pious, someone whom carved a deep love for the sea, for travel for the natural world, and for people. Who’s personal story quietly transformed the world of her encounters as a strong, independent woman and spirit, translating her own feminist concerns into a simple act of doing and being who she is in the face of so much uncertainty (read up on her surfing exploits, you won’t regret it). In his most apt descriptive, Suchet describes her as being “very sensitive to the world,” translating that to her deep felt need for drawing out real and honest characters through her stories.
“One must do things by oneself sometimes. Either I cling to everything that’s safe and that I know, or else I develop more initiative, do things on my own.” (Agatha Christie)
I talked about some of the ways my choice to switch from the car to the train ultimately ended up sacrificing and/or throwing into chaos certain parts of my trip in my previous blog in this space. One of the very real things I gained, an experience I wouldn’t otherwise have had, was the chance to enter into Christie’s story via the mode of transport she most loved. The simple joy of travelling this particular route along the coast up to Torquay, her place of birth and her continued home, is magical. A ride in which every turn brings a different seaside village or ocean vantage point into view.
Hearing her story, I spent some time thinking about my own solo trip, a product of our present life situation in which certain responsibilities have limited my wife and I from being able to travel together the way we have for most our married life. I feel the anxiety of that once powerful push against this idea of getting creative with our plans, with this concept of venturing out on my own bringing deep feelings of uncertainty. I feel the tension she describes, in making sense of how such points of initiative fit with the fact that none of us are ever truly doing anything “on our own.” This revelation from Christie is not so much a wanted grasp of a sought after individualism, but an invitation to keep the world that is shaping her in view, in times when life threatens to bury it. To hold fast to that simple need to be a participant in this thing we call life. For Christie, the bigger the world became, the more meaningful home becomes.
Torquay is her home, of which she describes it as “my home, off and on, nearly all my life.” It sits at the heart of what has been coined the English Riviera. This is a place where the waters carry a rich bluish tinge and the streets a golden hue, where the emergence of the sun, which I got to witness from my deck as the clouds finally cleared, giving way to its setting, reveals a once hidden space that before didn’t exist. Dig a little deeper and you find the long standing economic struggles that seperates the town from the enchantment of its High Street, This remains the modern shape of the town, and I found it equally interesting to read through the present state of its politics and the ambitious plans for revitalization that is reimagining and reshaping the immediate future of the area. But to gain a glimpse into Christie’s world, the immediate interest is in walking what is called the Agatha Christie mile.
I could recount my own experiences here of walking in her footsteps, but this was my guide, and it does a wonderful job of bringing these spaces alive. For me, I booked a seaside room at the Imperial Hotel overlooking Beacon Cove, the place where she once thrilled over the simple act of bathing in the sea. For my part, arriving at that train station and stepping off on to the same platform, walking down the same streets, imagining the area that once was her home, seeing the plant collection that inspired her more fun, maccabre sensibilities, strolling the same shorelines that continue to define her conception of “home,” it led me to think more deeply about what it means to love the homes that we have inherited. This is the thing Agatha Christie modeled, this practice of expanding our view of the world, an act that this pilgrimage was opening up for me in this very moment, while simitaneously allowing that to shape our participation in the homes we have inherited. And what lies behind that is the similar revelation which shapes all of the literary voices of my childhood: the powerful role that story plays in binding these two things together.
Christie never got to see the world that Suchet is encountering in his travels today. In some ways it’s quite a different space. In many ways it’s very much the same. It’s the fact that Christie lived her life in the world that was right in front of her that felt so poignant to me. It’s a reminder that, for all the ways in which the modern world sells its myth of progress, this problematic way of measuring our present based on scapegoating the past and the valourization of an illusioned future only serves to bury the world that is right in front of us, disconnecting us from the real invitation. This is what Suchet intuitively picks up on in “minding the gap” between Christie’s travels and his own, something that Christie’s own journey observes through the acts of writing and creating it inspired: this modern myth can only ever condemn the world we are called to inhabit. To inhabit the world that is right in front us, as Christie so modeled, is to learn how to love it.
Review of advance copy
Apparently this book has not yet been published in the US, but I was gifted a copy sold in the UK, with a publication date of 2025. What is odd is that the jacket does have a price list showing a US price (in British pounds). So, I would not consider this a pre-publication review, per se.
OK, leaving that aside --
I quite enjoyed this! We had watched the documentary of Agatha Christie's travels in 1922 on behalf of the British Empire Exhibition, and had enjoyed that. This book is David Suchet's story of the travels he and his wife had, associated with making that documentary. David is shown in that documentary retracing the route that Agatha took and her stops along the way. Her trip took 8 months and was mostly by ocean liner, whereas the Suchets' trip was 8 weeks and was mostly by air. Throughout the book, Suchet comments on the places visited by Christie, the people she met and impressions she recorded in her notes (to which Suchet had access), the historical context of the trip, and his own reaction to the various sites.
To a large extent, the book seems to repeat much of what Suchet said in the documentary about his reactions, and to expand upon it. In particular, he continually remarks about how welcome they were made to feel at each location, and sometimes connects with people who were either descended from or otherwise connected to people who met Agatha Christie on her tour. In addition, he and his wife (and possibly the the film crew?) sometimes stay in the same hotels as Agatha Christie did, which he seems to quite enjoy. He almost always is complimentary to the people, the places, the accommodations, everything about the trip.
But also as in the film, Suchet expresses his dismay and sympathy at how native populations were treated by the British, particularly in Australia and Canada. He notes how the New Zealand culture has incorporated Maori culture and heritage as it developed, much more completely and respectfully than in Australia.
The text is credited to David Suchet, and indeed it does read like someone's personal notes of a trip rather than as a professional writer's travel book. The book also includes some of his own photographs, and he makes a point of saying that he brought his own camera with him everywhere and used it extensively throughout the trip.
Suchet includes several side comments about his experiences as an actor portraying Poirot, describing his own attention to the details of Poirot's personality, style of dress, and manner from Christie's books. Some of this seems outside the scope of the trip and the video documentary, but it is interesting and not annoying. After so many years acting as Poirot, it is understandable that this trip would prompt such comments.
All in all, this was an enjoyable book to read, full of beautiful photos, and helped to reinforce the impressions of Agatha Christie from seeing the documentary of her trip, which this trip emulated. We learn about her own experiences on her trip, her evolving role as a budding author, and a few things about her personal life (including her great pleasure in learning to surfboard!).
One thing does puzzle me just a bit: Which photos in the book were taken by David Suchet? The jacket and the text say that the book includes photos he took, and in one or two cases he describes how he took a particular photo. Near the end he lists the specific lenses he used. But the photo credits at the end do not list Suchet. Sources are cited for a handful of specific photos (by page number), and then says "Throughout, Adobe Stock Images." That implies that every photo was from Adobe that was not specifically attributed to another source, does it not? So which ones did Suchet take? Seems to me that his photos should be credited.
OK, leaving that aside --
I quite enjoyed this! We had watched the documentary of Agatha Christie's travels in 1922 on behalf of the British Empire Exhibition, and had enjoyed that. This book is David Suchet's story of the travels he and his wife had, associated with making that documentary. David is shown in that documentary retracing the route that Agatha took and her stops along the way. Her trip took 8 months and was mostly by ocean liner, whereas the Suchets' trip was 8 weeks and was mostly by air. Throughout the book, Suchet comments on the places visited by Christie, the people she met and impressions she recorded in her notes (to which Suchet had access), the historical context of the trip, and his own reaction to the various sites.
To a large extent, the book seems to repeat much of what Suchet said in the documentary about his reactions, and to expand upon it. In particular, he continually remarks about how welcome they were made to feel at each location, and sometimes connects with people who were either descended from or otherwise connected to people who met Agatha Christie on her tour. In addition, he and his wife (and possibly the the film crew?) sometimes stay in the same hotels as Agatha Christie did, which he seems to quite enjoy. He almost always is complimentary to the people, the places, the accommodations, everything about the trip.
But also as in the film, Suchet expresses his dismay and sympathy at how native populations were treated by the British, particularly in Australia and Canada. He notes how the New Zealand culture has incorporated Maori culture and heritage as it developed, much more completely and respectfully than in Australia.
The text is credited to David Suchet, and indeed it does read like someone's personal notes of a trip rather than as a professional writer's travel book. The book also includes some of his own photographs, and he makes a point of saying that he brought his own camera with him everywhere and used it extensively throughout the trip.
Suchet includes several side comments about his experiences as an actor portraying Poirot, describing his own attention to the details of Poirot's personality, style of dress, and manner from Christie's books. Some of this seems outside the scope of the trip and the video documentary, but it is interesting and not annoying. After so many years acting as Poirot, it is understandable that this trip would prompt such comments.
All in all, this was an enjoyable book to read, full of beautiful photos, and helped to reinforce the impressions of Agatha Christie from seeing the documentary of her trip, which this trip emulated. We learn about her own experiences on her trip, her evolving role as a budding author, and a few things about her personal life (including her great pleasure in learning to surfboard!).
One thing does puzzle me just a bit: Which photos in the book were taken by David Suchet? The jacket and the text say that the book includes photos he took, and in one or two cases he describes how he took a particular photo. Near the end he lists the specific lenses he used. But the photo credits at the end do not list Suchet. Sources are cited for a handful of specific photos (by page number), and then says "Throughout, Adobe Stock Images." That implies that every photo was from Adobe that was not specifically attributed to another source, does it not? So which ones did Suchet take? Seems to me that his photos should be credited.
January 19, 2026
I love Agatha Christie's murder mysteries, as subtle clues, but hard to guess who did it. A very good crime writer.
I love Hercule Poirot and have read alot of the books and seen all the tv series.
This book Travels with Agatha Christie by David Suchet, follows Agathas journey through the British Empire in 1922.
David Suchet goes to the exact same places Agatha did, and even stays where Agatha did.
An enlightening book into a warm, humorous and adventurous side of Agatha, little known.
Her travels appear in her books.
Also an insight into David Suchet and being Hercule Poirot, who he misses...
A wonderful book, adventure, full of great photos.
Can't wait for it to be on TV and on DVD.
A must have book for all Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot fans.
I rate this book highly.
I love Hercule Poirot and have read alot of the books and seen all the tv series.
This book Travels with Agatha Christie by David Suchet, follows Agathas journey through the British Empire in 1922.
David Suchet goes to the exact same places Agatha did, and even stays where Agatha did.
An enlightening book into a warm, humorous and adventurous side of Agatha, little known.
Her travels appear in her books.
Also an insight into David Suchet and being Hercule Poirot, who he misses...
A wonderful book, adventure, full of great photos.
Can't wait for it to be on TV and on DVD.
A must have book for all Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot fans.
I rate this book highly.
April 4, 2026
This is a fascinating book that repeats, as much as possible, Agatha Christie’s trip in 1924 in advance of the British Empire Exhibition with David Suchet. Mr. Suchet played Christie’s main character Poirot for 25 years and he and his wife and a video crew visited the places in the British Empire that Christie and her husband visited. The book share photos from the Christie’s trip with modern photos taken by David Suchet and his narrative. The history about Christie’s trip is interesting, especially after a century of change and modernization.
September 12, 2026
David Suchet played Poirot for 25 years on TV, so he was a natural choice to narrate a redo of a tour Agatha Christie and her first husband did about 100 years ago. This is the written accompaniment to the video tour. It’s a bit talky and very focused on Suchet and his wife’s reactions, but the combination makes it endearing and personal.
They went to the same places and when possible the same hotels as Agatha did. They also had her diary to compare reactions. The pictures are very nice and the story relaxing. And we learn Agatha was a surfer!
They went to the same places and when possible the same hotels as Agatha did. They also had her diary to compare reactions. The pictures are very nice and the story relaxing. And we learn Agatha was a surfer!
Review of advance copy
Excellent photos and I learned some interesting things about Agatha Christie along the way. But the text rambles, and Suchet introduces us to a lot of people without giving us any real sense of who they are and how he interacted with them. I learned more about his luggage arrangements than the people and places he saw.
(Not sure why this is marked as a Kindle edition. I have a Constable hardcover from the library, but there doesn't seem to be a listing for that.)
(Not sure why this is marked as a Kindle edition. I have a Constable hardcover from the library, but there doesn't seem to be a listing for that.)
May 30, 2026
This was a really cool book. My favorite Poirot follows in the steps of the Queen of Crime and travels around the world. Full of beautiful pictures and stories from the trip, actor David Suchet retraces the journey of Agatha Christie that she took with her first husband in 1922 while promoting the British Empire Exhibition. An incredible book that was even better than I expected.
June 6, 2026
A companion book to a BBC series I haven’t seen. Coming in blind like this it seems a bit light on actual Agatha Christie content. I assume this is where the television series picks up. It was an enjoyably light travelogue for reading on a summer afternoon, but you won’t glean much that is new about Agatha.
August 5, 2026
The photography in this book is beautiful. The stories of Christie's travels are fun. Suchet is not the writer that Christie is, and repeated parts of his tale often. I'm sure the documentary of this travel is fantastic.
January 16, 2026
This is an enjoyable read. Brief in terms of text, but rich in character and photography. It reveals more of David (and especially his wife Sheila) Suchet than does the TV show of the same name.
May 7, 2026
Not nearly as interesting as it sounded, but at least it was short! 😅
September 30, 2026
Delightful
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