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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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Goddard, Robert
1954 -
Robert Goddard is a popular, much-translated and lauded British thriller writer with an unusual and highly personal style....
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Cole, Martina
1959 -
Martina Cole is one best-selling British authors of the 21st century; according to the mass media, only Harry Potter’s c...
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Hill, Susan
1942 -
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Musso, Guillaume
1974 -
Frenchman who has written a number of thrillers which have been translated into many languages, and who is said to be the...
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