David Morris, Editor and author of the authoritative website Collecting Christie will explore Agatha Christie’s stage plays – including her original plays, adapted plays, those adapted by others and even her unpublished plays. The talk will explore the world of playscripts, programmes and memorabilia - all through the lens of a collector.

Join Kate Jackson, writer, blogger and classic crime expert and she offers tips on how to survive should you find yourself unexpectedly caught within the pages of an Agatha Christie mystery. She will provide all of the tools you need to avoid being framed for a murder or to evade an untimely demise.

We’re delighted to team up with the National Trust at Agatha Christie’s former holiday home at Greenway House to host an exclusive and intimate dinner for just 20 guests. Arrive for drinks and canapes followed by a guided tour of the house. A four-course dinner is followed by an after-dinner talk by renowned expert on Agatha Christie on screen, Dr Mark Aldridge. Carriages to the door of the house at 10.30 pm.

The Festival Players present a rehearsed reading of Agatha Christie’s ‘lost play’ TOWARDS ZERO.

 This is our main event to mark the birthday of Agatha Christie.

For Agatha Christie, the vicar was a staple of everyday life, and this is reflected in her books. Whether she used a clergyman to bring dramatic suspense or comic relief into the mix, Christie always drew these characters from reality and they help us understand her philosophy of human nature.

Sarah Martin discusses the significance of the female Flapper Girl in Agatha Christie's fiction. She’ll look at the historic importance of this feminine figure and identify some of Agatha's most wonderful, and downright scandalous, representations of the flapper girl as detective in her fiction. Be prepared for outrageous outfits, fantastic fashion, and daring dresses!

Ann Cleeves is the author behind ITV’s Vera and BBC One’s Shetland. She has written over thirty novels, and is the creator of detectives Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn who appears in the Two Rivers mysteries set in North Devon where Ann was raised. She was awarded an OBE in the 2022 New Year Honours List “for services to Reading and Libraries.” Jake Kerridge is an author and journalist.

If any writer of the twentieth century could claim to have been by royal appointment, then it was Agatha Christie. In this coronation year, Dr Julius Green’s illustrated talk examines the many and varied royal connections to her work.

According to legend, the idea for Penguin Books came to Allen Lane after visiting Agatha Christie in 1934. Finding himself stranded on the platform at Exeter St David's he saw the need for good quality affordable paperbacks and would later form the company with his brothers Richard and John.

We’re delighted to team up with the National Trust at Agatha Christie’s former holiday home at Greenway House to host an exclusive and intimate dinner for just 20 guests. Arrive for drinks and canapes followed by a guided tour of the house. A four-course dinner is followed by an after-dinner talk by renowned expert and author of Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks, Dr John Curran. Carriages to the door of the house at 10.30pm.

Dr Mark Aldridge explores the behind-the-scenes story of the Miss Marple films starring Margaret Rutherford, before a screening of Murder at the Gallop.

Internationally recognised expert on Christie’s work, Dr John Curran, will looks at the books about Agatha Christie that every aficionado should have on their shelves. And a few they should shun.

Sophie Hannah discusses her upcoming fifth Poirot novel, in which the legendary sleuth puts his little grey cells to work solving a baffling Christmas mystery.

Lady Lettice Lovage is the world's leading romantic novelist, known for having a colourful private life of her own - she has had many secret affairs with top political and business dignitaries. International blackmailer known only as The King of Hearts has committed larceny and absconded with Lady Lettice's love letters.  However, he has left clues on the golf course as to the letters’ location.  A reward is offered for the first to recover the letters.

Paul Doherty, historian and critically acclaimed author of The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, the Hugh Corbett mysteries and countless other novels, explores how murder has often lurked in the shadows around the throne. Be it King John, poisoned at Newark Castle in 1216 or Edward II, brutally murdered at Berkeley in September 1327, the list of victims is lengthy and so is the cohort of killers who have crouched in the darkness behind the throne.