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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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Bussi, Michel
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Michel Bussi, born in northern France, is a well-known scientist, since the 1990s a professor of Geo-politics – a s...
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Flynn, Gillian
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Already as a child, the American author and journalist Gillian Flynn was fascinated by horror and crime. She read books...
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Spillane, Mickey
1918 - 2006
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Harvey, John
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The British author, editor and teacher John Barton Harvey grew up in London where he attended St. Aloysius College. He...
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