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Bristol bookshop teams up with Netflix
A bookshop in Bristol is one of just seven across the UK that has partnered with Netflix to mark the release of a new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Seven Dials Mystery.
The Small City Bookshop in Redfield was chosen because it is independent and female-run.
Customers at the shop run by friends Christie Cluett and Sarah Balfour can pick up a Seven Dials goody bag at the shop on Church Road.
One goody bag contains tickets to the premiere of the series starring Helena Bonham-Carter, Martin Freeman and Mia McKenna-Bruce.
The Small Bookshop is one of just seven across the UK that has partnered with Netflix – image: Netflix
Christie and Sarah opened the Small City Bookshop in a former pawnbrokers on Church Road in 2022.
The shop now host numerous storytelling and reader events at their shop which they say is for both “literacy lovers and reluctant readers”.
Inside one goody bag at the Small City Bookshop are tickets to the premiere of the Netflix adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Seven Dials Mystery, which she wrote in 1929 – photo: Martin Booth
January 12 is the 50th anniversary of the death of Agatha Christie, who got married in a hurried wartime wedding in Bristol in 1914.
Then an unpublished novelist, Agatha Miller married Archibald Christie while he was on leave from the Royal Flying Corps on the afternoon of Christmas Eve at Emmanuel Church on Guthrie Road in Clifton.
The location of the former church (now sheltered accommodation) is marked with a plaque.
A green plaque marks the location of Agatha Christie’s wartime wedding – photo: Martin Booth
Main photo: Martin Booth
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