Sample of authors
Cole, Martina
Martina Cole is one best-selling British authors of the 21st century; according to the mass media, only Harry Potter’s creator J.K. Rowling has achieved greater economic success. If Cole is popular with readers, the opposite applies to the critics: on the whole, bloggers are the only commentators who give her positive reviews, and even though she has been nominated for several literary prizes, s...
Literary figures
Harry Barnett
Gender: Male
A tired and shabby middle-aged British man with an invalid’s pension, who works as a house caretaker in Greece in Robert Goddard’s first book about him. His major interest is to eat and drink, but for various reasons he becomes involved in a number of criminal cases; in one of them, too, he gets to find out that he has an unknown adult son. He gets married and settles in Vancouver – but is never...