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Sample of authors
Blunt, Giles
Giles Blunt is a Canadian author, born in North Bay, Ontario, to English parents. He attended Scollard Hall, a Catholic primary school, and Algonquin Composite after which he read English literature at the University of Toronto, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1975. He also wrote poetry in his spare time; some of his poems were published in Canadian magazines, which led to a job as a film...
Literary figures
Jackson Lamb
Gender: Male
Misanthropic boss of Slough House, a department for discharged spies and agents in the British MI5. Jackson Lamb, a central figure in a suite of novels by Mick Herron, is a former spy who has gone to seed. He is tall, has an ‘offensive’ face, is cynical and sarcastic, a chain smoker and is careless about his personal hygiene. This doesn’t prevent him and his department from managing to solve sever...