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Sample of authors
Fforde, Jasper
Jasper Fforde is a British author. He grew up in London and Wales. His father was an economist who was Chief Cashier of the Bank of England in 1966–70. His mother, who was involved in different charities, passed on her great love of books to her children. Jasper Fforde was enrolled at the progressive boarding school Dartington Hall School in Totnes, Devon, at the age of twelve. Even though he d...
Literary figures
Timothy Trant
Gender: Male
Police detective in New York, well educated and always snobbishly dressed in tailored suits. Timothy ‘Tim’ Trant is stubborn, sometimes unscrupulous, when he carries out his murder investigations, and is in the habit of putting pressure on a suspect when he is actually gathering evidence against another. The books are written by Q. Patrick and Patrick Quentin, pseudonyms for Richard Webb and/or Hu...