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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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Brooks, Kevin
1959 -
Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter and has studied Philosophy and Psychology at Aston University in Birmingham and in London....
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Barclay, Linwood
1955 -
Canadian-American author, born in Darien, Connecticut in the USA. Just before his fourth birthday, the family moved to...
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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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Crispin, Edmund
1921 - 1978
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym for Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English pianist and organist, composer and author of...
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