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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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Blunt, Giles
1952 -
Giles Blunt is a Canadian author, born in North Bay, Ontario, to English parents. He attended Scollard Hall, a Catholic...
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Beckett, Simon
1960 -
English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at h...
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Lockridge, Frances
1896 - 1963
The American author and journalist Frances Lockridge was born as Frances Davis in Kansas City in Missouri, where she also...
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Brett, Simon
1945 -
British author born in Worcester Park, Surrey. In 1949, the family moved to Ealing and a year later to Banstead where he...
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