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Peace, David
David Peace is a British novelist. He was born and raised in Osset near Leeds in Yorkshire. He was educated in Wakefield, attended Manchester Polytechnic and played in a band that performed in aid of striking miners and against Thatcher’s government in the early eighties. He wrote a lot, unsuccessfully, and was often brutally turned down, was periodically unemployed, and in the early nineties he m...
Literary figures
Lancelot Priestley
Gender: Male
He was forced to resign from the university where he taught Chemistry and Physics after skirmishes with the board. But he is well-off, and his hobby is to help English police officers solve tricky murder mysteries – usually by just listening to their reports in the books by John Rhode (pseudonym for Cecil Street). Dr. Lancelot Priestley has thick spectacles, is a widower and has a daughter named A...