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Country Life Trending: Once home to the Murder on the Orient Express author and her husband, Grade II-listed Winterbrook House is also appealing for its magnificent Thames-side setting. Winterbrook House stands in an appealing setting on the banks of the Thames on the edge of this historic Wallingford, 12 miles from Henley-on-Thames and 15 miles from Oxford and a mile from Waitrose. An English Heritage blue plaque on its Queen Anne façade announces that this charming five-bedroom house was the much-loved former home of Dame Agatha Christie and her globe-trotting husband, the archaeolog...

Author’s latest creation has monstrously funny secret ');  '); A HENLEY children’s author has written the first in a projected five-book series for younger readers. Robin Bennett’s With illustrations by Tom Tinn-Disbury, the 176-page paperback tells the story of Max, a nine-year-old boy with a most unusual superpower. Whenever he burps, he turns into a huge dustbin-eating monster who runs around Oxford city centre bending statues into different shapes. Robin, who lives in Queen Street, first came up with the idea for the character three years ago and was encouraged by the reaction of...