Sample of authors
Harrison, Harry
The Irish-American author and illustrator Harry (Henry Maxwell) Harrison wrote virtually only science fiction and fantasy. That doesn’t prevent his writing from having a remarkable scope: his books comprise everything from serious and shocking dystopias such as the classic Make Room! Make Room! (1966), to satirical, partly farcical novels like Bill, the Galactic Hero (1965) and the suite about ‘...
Literary figures
Tony Hill
Gender: Male
Anthony ‘Tony’ Hill is a qualified psychologist as well as a skilful ‘profiler’ often used by the police in Bradford in a suite of crime novels by Val McDermid. He works with Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan, and they have a complicated private relationship. Hill is sickly, sexually dysfunctional and there are details that mention an unhappy and mentally stressful childhood and youth.