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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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Clancy, Tom
1947 - 2013
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Bond, Michael
1926 - 2017
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Haas, Wolf
1960 -
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Blædel, Sara
1964 -
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