Photo: Charlotte Graham/REX /TT (2015)
Sample of authors
Taylor, Andrew
The British author Andrew John Robert Taylor was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and grew up in East Anglia. He attended King’s School at Ely, Cambridgeshire, 1959–65 and Woodbridge School, Suffolk, 1965–69. He graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, with an MA in English in 1973 and moved to London where he worked as a teacher, boat builder and freelance editor before going back to unive...
Literary figures
Peter Diamond
Gender: Male
Peter Diamond is a police officer, formerly stationed in London, and now working in Bath in Somerset. He is 50+, a widower and overweight with abominable dietary habits – ‘an ambulatory heart attack’, according to his creator Peter Lovesey. Already in the early books, Diamond left the police service, but returned after a couple of novels. Through his stubbornness and the way he ignores orders, he...