Book description
Travel journalist Andrew Eames was in the ancient Syrian city of Aleppo
when he met an elderly lady who had known Agatha Christie. Fascinated by
the exotic history of this quintessentially English crime writer, he
decided to retrace the trip from London to Baghdad which she made in
1928 - a journey which was to change Agatha Christie completely and led
to her other life as the wife of an archaeologist in the deserts of
Syria and Iraq. Travelling from London to Baghdad by train on the eve of
the Iraq war, through the troubled areas of the Balkans and the Middle
East, Eames found stark contrasts to the old Orient Express route as
well as some unexpected connections with the past.
Andrew Eames was born in 1958. His career in journalism started
in south-east Asia, where he travelled and lived for two years. From
there he returned to the UK to work first on specialist magazines and
then in guide book publishing. Ten years ago he went freelance, and
has been writing travel and general interest features mainly for
national newspapers, such as The Telegraph and The
Times. He is the author of Crossing the Shadow Line,
Four Scottish Journeys and Benn's London.
He is married with two children.
