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Portrait image of Hannah Kent Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP Photo/TT (2014)

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Kent, Hannah

The Australian author Hannah Kent looks back on an idyllic childhood in Adelaide Hills. Together with her little sister, she spent a lot of time out in nature among oaks and rubber trees. This interest in nature is mirrored in her novels, in which she likes to "transform the qualities of nature into prose". She is one of those children who decide to become an author at an early age. She made...

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Patrick Grant

Gender: Male

Professor Patrick Grant – whose surname comes from the whisky brand, his creator Margaret Yorke has revealed – lectures in Art History in Oxford. He is somewhat absentminded, often quotes Shakespeare, but for a principal protagonist in crime novels he is really an unusually bland figure without any special characteristics. He is, however, a clever amateur detective who solves cases in five who...

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