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Victoria Jones wanted excitement — she got espionage, kidnapping, and a plot to rule the world. They Came to Baghdad (1951) — inspired by Christie’s own travels in the Middle East with her archaeologist husband — follows a typist who talks her way to Baghdad and stumbles into an international conspiracy — and into the adventure of a lifetime.
Exotic, fast-moving, and full of Christie’s dry wit, this is the thriller Christie wrote from life: the Baghdad she knew — its markets, its politics, its dangers — transformed into a playground for spies. Victoria is one of her most appealing heroines: impulsive, brave, and funny — the kind of heroine who talks her way into trouble and charms her way out.
A standalone adventure — perfect for readers who want Christie beyond the whodunit. For fans of vintage thrillers and armchair travelers: Baghdad has never been more thrilling. Pack your bags — this one moves.
Before she became one of England’s most celebrated novelists, Penelope Fitzgerald was a biographer — and her first book remains a landmark. Edward Burne-Jones, first published in 1975, is her “scholarly, accessible” life of the Pre-Raphaelite painter, the biography that gave Burne-Jones his due as a major late-Romantic figure of European stature.
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Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was the dreamer of the Pre-Raphaelites: the Birmingham-born artist whose haunting, romantic visions — knights, legends, sleeping beauties — defined an era of British art. Drawing on letters, diaries, and family archives, Fitzgerald traces his journey from Oxford undergraduate to the studio of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, through his partnership with William Morris and his rise to a baronetcy in 1894.
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Written with a novelist’s eye for character and a scholar’s command of fact, this 354-page biography reads like the best kind of story — vivid, humane, and quietly revelatory. For art lovers and biography readers alike, it is the essential portrait of an artist who painted dreams.
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