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Sample of authors
McCall Smith, Alexander
The British author Alexander McCall Smith – called Sandy by family and friends – was born in Bulawayo in the then British colony of Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) as the youngest of four children to a British public prosecutor and his wife. He was schooled at the Christian Brothers College in Bulawayo before travelling to Scotland in 1966 to start studying Law at the University of Edi...
Literary figures
Paul Chavesse
Gender: Male
Middle-aged professor who, thanks to his academic merits and his comprehensive language skills, becomes involved as an agent for the extremely secret British security service The Bureau. Paul Chavasse has, says author Martin Fallon (pseudonym for Henry Patterson), an everyday appearance with black hair and high cheekbones. He is a gentleman – and a bit shy with women.