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It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.
English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...
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![Författarporträtt av Brooks, Kevin](images/writer/3909/wm_BR_3909_20160419144335_Large.jpg)
Brooks, Kevin
1959 -
Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter and has studied Philosophy and Psychology at Aston University in Birmingham and in London....
Further reading![Portrait of Adrian McKinty](images/writer/6763/609411b9f2c86a094248f755d498ddc8d311613cc1c86.jpg)
McKinty, Adrian
1968 -
Adrian McKinty was born in Belfast and grew up in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where he attended...
Further reading![Portrait image of Sébastien Japrisot](images/writer/848/6197e529cb89d0fa3ddb2fb428bfc6302c3fafd5d81ae.jpg)
Japrisot, Sébastien
1931 - 2003
Pseudonym for the French author, translator and filmmaker Jean-Baptiste Rossi who was born in Marseille to Italian parents....
Further reading![Portrait of Martina Cole](images/writer/7450/60955dfcbc94af16e3007859f7c7f866b04a8c9ae87fe.jpg)
Cole, Martina
1959 -
Martina Cole is one best-selling British authors of the 21st century; according to the mass media, only Harry Potter’s c...
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