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Sample of authors
Peace, David
David Peace is a British novelist. He was born and raised in Osset near Leeds in Yorkshire. He was educated in Wakefield, attended Manchester Polytechnic and played in a band that performed in aid of striking miners and against Thatcher’s government in the early eighties. He wrote a lot, unsuccessfully, and was often brutally turned down, was periodically unemployed, and in the early nineties he m...
Literary figures
Cato Isaksen
Gender: Male
Inspector Cato Isaksen is successful at work, but his private life is a mess. Unni Lindell’s books are more than detective stories, they also portray Isaksen’s struggle to get comfortable with his male identity and not to let his private life interfere too much with his job. It adds an extra dimension to the books.