Poirot: From Orient Express to Kingfisher Hill

Sophie Hannah is a Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling writer of crime fiction, published in forty-nine languages and fifty-one territories. Her books have sold millions of copies worldwide. In 2014, with the blessing of Agatha Christie’s family and estate, Sophie published a new Poirot novel, The Monogram Murders, which was a bestseller in more than fifteen countries. She has since published three more Poirot novels: Closed Casket, The Mystery of Three Quarters and The Killings At Kingfisher Hill, all of which were instant Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers.

In 2013, Sophie’s novel The Carrier won the Crime Thriller of the Year Award at the Specsavers National Book Awards. She has also published two short story collections and five collections of poetry – the fifth of which, Pessimism for Beginners, was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Award. Her poetry is studied at GCSE, A Level and degree level across the UK. Most recently, she has published a self-help book called How to Hold a Grudge and launched a podcast of the same name.

Sophie is the co-creator and Course Director for the University of Cambridge’s Crime and Thriller Writing Master’s degree programme at the Institute of Continuing Educaction. She is also the founder of the Dream Author Coaching programme for writers (https://dreamauthorcoaching.com). She lives with her family in Cambridge, where she is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College.

Ravi Subramanian has spent two decades working his way up the ladder of power in the amazingly exciting and adrenaline-pumping world of global banks in India. He is the award winning author of ten bestselling books including If God Was A Banker (2007), The Bankster (2012), Bankerupt (2014) and Don’t Tell The Governor (2018). He has also co-authored a children’s book, My First Book Of Money, with Shoma Narayanan.

Ravi has won the Golden Quill Readers Choice Award in 2008 for If God Was A Banker and the Crossword Book Award for The Incredible Banker in 2012, for The Bankster in 2013 and for Bankerupt in 2014. His books have been translated into Hindi, Tamil and Latvian.