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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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Cole, Martina
1959 -
Martina Cole is one best-selling British authors of the 21st century; according to the mass media, only Harry Potter’s c...
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Crofts, Freeman Wills
1879 - 1957
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young....
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Lemaitre, Pierre
1951 -
Pierre Lemaitre is one of France’s foremost noir novelists. The rather limited work of the award-winning author has been t...
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Hawkins, Paula
1972 -
Paula Hawkins grew up in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Her father was an economics professor and journalist....
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