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Sample of authors
Archer, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Howard Archer was a British author, politician and peer of the realm surrounded by scandal. His thrillers and short stories are hugely popular, despite the fact that he never found favour with the critics, his involvement in insider trading and being sentenced for perjury. None of this stopped him from being knighted in 1992, adding Baron Archer of Weston-Super-Mare to his name in...
Literary figures
Alan Banks
Gender: Male
Detective Inspector Banks works in the fictional town of Eastvale in Swainsdale, a fictional region based on Yorkshire. He is the calm and systematic protagonist in a series of novels and short stories by the British author Peter Robinson. DI Banks likes model railways, sixties rock and his colleague Annie Cabbot, with whom he has had an off and on relationship after divorcing his wife Sandra.