Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. Georgiana's (Duchess of Devonshire) extraordinary life has now been made into a major film - starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes - which is due for release in summer 2008
Agatha Christie's memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan Agatha Christie was already well known as a crime writer when she accompanied ...