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Sample of authors
La Plante, Lynda
Lynda La Plante is a British author, television producer and actor born Lynda Titchmarsh in Formby near Liverpool. Her writing career is an unusual one. Several of her books are based on television screenplays and films, others were originally novels that were later adapted, normally for television. She has won a string of awards and was awarded an OBE in 2008.
La Plante was raised in and...
Literary figures
Bennie Griessel
Gender: Male
He is a middle-aged detective with the Cape Town police, is of average height with greying untidy hair, a rugged face and a Slavic appearance. Benny Griessel does, however, have problems. He boozes – which is why his wife and their two children throw him out, and he finds a new partner. He struggles determinedly against his alcoholism, author Deon Meyer tells us, and he embarks upon a r...