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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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Nesbø, Jo
1960 -
The Norwegian, Jo Nesbø, is one of Norway’s most appreciated and successful crime writers. He was born in Oslo as Jon Ne...
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Schirach, Ferdinand von
1964 -
Ferdinand von Schirach is a German lawyer and author born in Munich to a wealthy Protestant family. He grew up in Munich...
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McCall Smith, Alexander
1948 -
The British author Alexander McCall Smith – called Sandy by family and friends – was born in Bulawayo in the then British col...
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Herbert, James
1943 - 2013
James Herbert from England was one of the best-selling and most praised authors of horror fiction in the late 20th century....
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