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It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.
English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...
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![Författarporträtt av Goddard, Robert](images/writer/3349/wm_BL_3349_20160419152018_Large.jpg)
Goddard, Robert
1954 -
Robert Goddard is a popular, much-translated and lauded British thriller writer with an unusual and highly personal style....
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Peace, David](images/writer/5399/wm_BR_5399_20130821174028_Large.jpg)
Peace, David
1967 -
David Peace is a British novelist. He was born and raised in Osset near Leeds in Yorkshire. He was educated in Wakefield,...
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...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Bolton, Sharon](images/writer/5352/wm_BR_5352_20160824134835_Large.jpg)
Bolton, Sharon
1960 -
The English author Sharon Bolton was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, as the oldest of three girls. She grew up in Darwen and...
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