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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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![Portrait of Jack Higgins](images/writer/757/6095584c4265d8a480915192e4dae55431edafb25963e.jpg)
Higgins, Jack
1929 - 2022
British/Irish – he had double citizenship – author and former teacher, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was christened Henry P...
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Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel
1939 - 2003
Spanish author, journalist, essayist and poet. Vázquez Montalbán was born in Barcelona the same year as General Franco came o...
Further reading![Portrait image of Pierre Boileau](images/writer/5580/61978e7d910a9c9f1819dd06cbf7f1197884b0e60ef4c.jpg)
Boileau, Pierre
1906 - 1989
Pierre Boileau was one half of the partnership (and the brand) Boileau-Narcejac, which can best be described as French...
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Mendoza, Eduardo
1943 -
Eduardo Mendoza Garriga is a Spanish author who lives in Barcelona. His father was a lawyer and his mother a housewife. He...
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