Sample of authors
Brett, Simon
British author born in Worcester Park, Surrey. In 1949, the family moved to Ealing and a year later to Banstead where he attended Beacon School until 1956 when he won a grant to Dulwich College, London. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Wadham College, Oxford, in 1967. He was a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, and while at Oxford he spent all his leisure time performing...
Literary figures
Aristide Pamplemousse
Gender: Male
He is obliged to resign from the police after a scandal which included a large number of ballet girls. Aristide Pamplemousse maintains his innocence, not least in front of his wife Doucette, and becomes a food-tester for a restaurant guide. He travels together with his bloodhound Pommes Frites around France in a suite of farcical detective stories by Michael Bond, eats, and solves murder case in...