Photo: Richard Lewis /AP/TT (2001)
Sample of authors
Archer, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Howard Archer was a British author, politician and peer of the realm surrounded by scandal. His thrillers and short stories are hugely popular, despite the fact that he never found favour with the critics, his involvement in insider trading and being sentenced for perjury. None of this stopped him from being knighted in 1992, adding Baron Archer of Weston-Super-Mare to his name in...
Literary figures
Anna Travis
Gender: Female
When readers get to meet police daughter Anna Travis for the first time, she has just become a police detective in London. She makes a rapid career together with her colleague James Langton. She is a young, competent woman with red hair and brown eyes, and likes to dress in a manner that could be seen as ‘somewhat risqué’ with low-cut necklines and short skirts. Since she went horseback riding a l...