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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
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...
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Keating, H.R.F.
1926 - 2011
Henry Raymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating is a British author born at St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. He was educated in the...
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Jungstedt, Mari
1962 -
Mari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist, broadcaster and author born in Stockholm. Her parents were very young when they...
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James, Peter
1948 -
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Collins, Wilkie
1824 - 1889
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