Spain, Jo
1979 -

The Irish author Joanne ‘Jo’ Spain was born into a working-class family in the little notorious residential district of Bel...

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Lapidus, Jens
1974 -

Jens Lapidus grew up on the outskirts of Stockholm. His mother was a social worker and his father a journalist who, among...

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Gercke, Doris
1937 -

Doris Gercke is a German author of crime fiction born in Greifswald in the former East Germany. She grew up in a working...

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Parsons, Tony
1953 -

English author and journalist, born and grew up as the only child in a working-class family in Romford, Essex. When Tony...

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