Meny
Portrait of John Harvey Photo: imone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images (2018)

Sample of authors

Harvey, John

The British author, editor and teacher John Barton Harvey grew up in London where he attended St. Aloysius College. He graduated from teacher’s college at the University of London in 1963 and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree at Hatfield Polytechnic (now the University of Hertfordshire) in 1964. He then taught in Heanor, Andover and Stevenage while continuing his studies for a Master of Arts d...

Further reading

Literary figures

Tad Anders

Gender: Male

A Polish soldier fled to England at the outbreak of the Second World War, married an English woman and had a son, Tadeusz ‘Tad’ Anders. Then he died in the war, and the boy is brought up by the mother. As an adult, Anders became a professional killer for the MI6 secret service until he retired and started to run a pub in a short suite of novels by Ted Allbeury. But his services are still needed…

Further reading