Sample of authors
Bond, Michael
The British author Thomas Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire, England. He attended Presentation College, Reading. During the war he served first in the Royal Air Force and then in the British Army. His writing career began in 1945 when his first short story was printed in the London Opinion, and he continued to write short stories and plays while working as a cameraman at the BBC. Bond...
Literary figures
Erik Winter
Gender: Male
Winter is a detective inspector in Gothenburg, Sweden. Contrary to most other literary detectives he comes from a wealthy family and is well off. He marries a physician, Angela, and they have a child together in Åke Edwardson’s string of books about him. After a period of hard work, the family moves to Spain, but a couple of years later Winter returns to Gothenburg, without his family, and re...