Photo: ANL/REX / TT (1956)
Sample of authors
Canning, Victor
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
Literary figures
Yudel Gordon
Gender: Male
He is a prison psychologist and the main character in several of Wessel Ebersohn’s books. Yudel Gordon is of Jewish descent, a smallish middle-aged man with greying and always unkempt hair, and he wears glasses. He is married in a childless marriage to Rosa, who runs their household, but when necessary he can put his foot down. He is shy in the company of beautiful women, such as the coloured l...