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Sample of authors
Bradley, Alan
Alan Bradley was born in Toronto, Canada. He grew up with his mother and two sisters in the town of Cobourg, about one hundred kilometres from Toronto. His father left the family when the author was a small child. He was a sickly child and learned to read at an early age. He studied engineering, specialising in electronic systems for television and radio, and eventually moved to Saskatoon,...
Literary figures
Charlie Peace
Gender: Male
Afro-American detective, who in the first books about him works for Scotland Yard in London together with Perry Trethowan, another of author Robert Barnard’s main characters. After a while, Charlie Peace settles in the village of Slepton Edge in Yorkshire together with his quintessentially English wife, author Felicity, and their daughter Carola, and gets a job with the police in Leeds.