Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case by Agatha Christie #foliosociety That evening the baker’s wife

That evening the baker’s wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown

this beautifully packaged story also contains an extract of Pullman’s second short story set in the His Dark Materials world

They also happen to taste good and their fleeces warm us through the winter - indeed

Daisy Dunn charts the extraordinary lives of two outstanding minds and their lasting legacy on the world

Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case by Agatha Christie #foliosociety That evening the baker’s wifeThe special edition hardback of Hercule Poirots last case The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife, Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd Carrington. So Hastings was shocked to learn from Hercule Poirots