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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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![Portrait of Jo Spain](images/writer/7393/609423c28f096829436cf9cb3a4dc89f1e14aeea953c2.jpg)
Spain, Jo
1979 -
The Irish author Joanne ‘Jo’ Spain was born into a working-class family in the little notorious residential district of Bel...
Further reading![Portrait image of Deon Meyer](images/writer/5568/wm_BR_635017fb582c62d5be1930063f793916cceaaf8dd404e.jpg)
Meyer, Deon
1958 -
Deon Meyer is something of a rarity in that he is a South African crime writer who has had his crime novels, written in...
Further reading![Portrait image of Harlan Coben](images/writer/3950/6298fe6d7a234f35c87cb2c8f34bbe33f9424fa734de3.jpg)
Coben, Harlan
1962 -
Harlan Coben is an American author who grew up in a Jewish family in Livingston, New Jersey. He graduated from Livingston...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Zangwill, Israel](images/writer/5557/5557_20130305171955.jpg)
Zangwill, Israel
1864 - 1926
Israel Zangwill was a British Jewish author. His father had emigrated from Lithuania and his mother was a Polish refugee....
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