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Sample of authors
La Plante, Lynda
Lynda La Plante is a British author, television producer and actor born Lynda Titchmarsh in Formby near Liverpool. Her writing career is an unusual one. Several of her books are based on television screenplays and films, others were originally novels that were later adapted, normally for television. She has won a string of awards and was awarded an OBE in 2008.
La Plante was raised in and...
Literary figures
Flavia Albia
Gender: Female
When ‘private informer’ Marcus Didius Falco’s wife Helena meets her, Flavia Albia is a sullen teenager of unknown origin: she probably has a Roman father and a mother from Britannia. Falco and Helena adopt the girl, who grows up to become a beautiful woman and a clever detective. She takes over after Falco as the main character in Lindsay Davis’ historical detective stories, which are set in the 1...