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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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Tuomainen, Antti
1971 -
A Finnish author and journalist who gained international attention with his crime novels. They are translated into a number...
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French, Tana
1973 -
Crime writer and actress Tana French was born in Burlington, Vermont, USA. Her father was an economist and worked all...
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Spain, Jo
1979 -
The Irish author Joanne ‘Jo’ Spain was born into a working-class family in the little notorious residential district of Bel...
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Parker, Robert B.
1932 - 2010
Robert Brown Parker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where his father was head of a telephone company. Parker...
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