Photo: Paul McNicholls / Camera Press / TT (1979)
Sample of authors
Household, Geoffrey
Geoffrey Edward West Household grew up in Bristol where he attended Clifton College in 1914–19. He went on to study English at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating in 1922. Immediately afterwards, he worked for a bank in Bucharest, Romania. In 1926, he moved to Spain where he sold bananas for a fruit company. In 1929, he went to the United States where he became a travelling salesman in printing i...
Literary figures
Tom Maybridge
Gender: Male
English detective chief inspector, who is the main character in a series of novels by Barbara M. Gill. In the first, he is a somewhat anonymous but important figure in a police department, but already in the second book he is married to literary scholar Meg and – as in the third – the sole protagonist. Tom Maybridge is a patient investigator, he wears spectacles and his rather piercing gaze is a g...