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It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.
Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...
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Keneally, Thomas
1935 -
The novelist and non-fiction writer Thomas ‘Tom’ Keneally descends from a family of Irish prisoners that were deported to Aus...
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Crofts, Freeman Wills
1879 - 1957
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young....
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Manchette, Jean-Patrick
1942 - 1995
Jean-Patrick Manchette was a French author credited for having revolutionised noir fiction in France. He was born in...
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Bussi, Michel
1965 -
Michel Bussi, born in northern France, is a well-known scientist, since the 1990s a professor of Geo-politics – a s...
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