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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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Portrait of Ketil Bjørnstad

Bjørnstad, Ketil
1952 -

Norwegian author, pianist and composer born in Oslo. Ketil Bjørnstad studied for Robert Riefling and Amalie Christie. He ...

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Portrait image of Frode Grytten

Grytten, Frode
1960 -

Frode Grytten is a Norwegian author and journalist born and raised in Odda, a small industrial community in southwest...

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Portrait image of Liza Cody

Cody, Liza
1944 -

Pseudonym for Liza Nassim, English crime fiction writer, born in London where she grew up. She had problems in school – it l...

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Portrait image of William Brodrick

Brodrick, William
1960 -

The British crime writer William Brodrick was born in Bolton, Lancashire, but when he was eleven years old the family...

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