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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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![Portrait of Julie Parsons](images/writer/3056/609419ce9d0b45180953b2621b06a6518a9851f9280ee.jpg)
Parsons, Julie
1951 -
Writer of detective stories Julie Parsons was born and grew up in New Zealand, to which her Irish parents had emigrated in...
Further reading![Portrait image of Carl Hiaasen](images/writer/756/6197dd8153ed25a55db67b6db804cc2a8981bbd26c308.jpg)
Hiaasen, Carl
1953 -
Carl Hiaasen is an American journalist and author of thrillers. He was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is of...
Further reading![Portrait of James McClure](images/writer/1157/60992bf12d8dba3682822b154dfc20adb8e65100bbe52.jpg)
McClure, James
1939 - 2006
The journalist and author James "Jim" McClure’s Scottish parents left for South Africa in 1930, and he was subsequently b...
Further reading![Portrait image of Ronald A. Knox](images/writer/5588/6197e9bb8e9122f318447b3a0220556d46fd8308744a2.jpg)
Knox, Ronald A.
1888 - 1957
Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was a well-known and much loved English Catholic priest, theologian and author of crime...
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