Interview with David Brawn, Publisher of Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

HarperCollins UK publisher David Brawn has been keeping Agatha Christie in print for over 25 years now. More recently, he’s helmed the Christie continuation projects, starting first with Charles Osborne’s novelizations, then Sophie Hannah’s Poirot books, and just last month, Marple: Twelve New Mysteries, a new collection of Miss Marple short stories by twelve different writers. We had a lot to talk about, so I was thrilled to sit down with him in Torquay at the International Agatha Christie Festival a few weeks ago. I hope (and trust) you’ll enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

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0:00.0	Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery
0:10.1	novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie.
0:14.2	I am Kemper Donovan and I have another interview episode for you.
0:19.5	This is coming from the recent International Agatha Christie Festival.
0:23.6	You know, a large part of the joy of this festival is getting to meet up with luminaries
0:31.0	within the field of Agatha Christie Studies, Agathaology, if you will.
0:37.0	You have heard from a lot of those people on this podcast before, but you have not heard
0:42.7	from the guest I had the privilege to interview in this episode.
0:46.6	Let's just go right to the interview because I can't wait.
0:48.9	You're going to love it.
0:53.6	So one of the more significant perks of traveling to England to participate in the International
0:58.9	Agatha Christie Festival is being able to meet my next guest in person.
1:03.5	David Braun has worked for over 35 years at HarperCollins here in the UK as a publisher.
1:09.3	It is his happy task to handle all the Agatha Christie content that HarperCollins publishes,
1:14.7	which he has been doing for 25 odd years now.
1:18.9	This of course includes all of Agatha Christie's novels and short story collections, but also
1:23.8	the Puaro Continuation novels written by our mutual friend, Sophie Hannah, as well as
1:29.3	Marple, 12 new mysteries.
1:32.1	This is a new collection of short stories featuring Miss Marple, which just came out in the middle
1:35.9	of September, written by contemporary authors such as Ruth Ware, Lucy Foley, Val McDermid,
1:42.2	Kate Moss, among many others.
1:44.3	I am so excited to talk about all of this.
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