Photo: Charlotte Graham/REX /TT (2015)
Sample of authors
Taylor, Andrew
The British author Andrew John Robert Taylor was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and grew up in East Anglia. He attended King’s School at Ely, Cambridgeshire, 1959–65 and Woodbridge School, Suffolk, 1965–69. He graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, with an MA in English in 1973 and moved to London where he worked as a teacher, boat builder and freelance editor before going back to unive...
Literary figures
Anna Holt
Gender: Female
Anna Holt is a police officer, later commissioner of police, in Stockholm. She is the creation of authors Jan Guillou and Leif G.W. Persson who wrote the screenplay for a series of television episodes about her in the 1990s. Over the years, she has featured in some of the novels each has written independently. Holt is a complex woman, a determined and inventive investigator and a skilled...