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Sample of authors
Boyd, William
The British author William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana. His parents were scots, his father, a doctor, and his mother, a teacher, moved to The British Gold Coast in 1950, and Boyd grew up in a house full of black servants. The British Gold Coast became independent Ghana when he was five years old, and the family moved to Nigeria, whose independence in 1960 was followed by military coups and...
Literary figures
Henry Tibbett
Gender: Male
He starts as an ordinary detective inspector, but works his way up to become a chief superintendent with the London Police, in a suite of novels by Patricia Moyes. Henry Tibbett is a friendly, unobtrusive gentleman with an ordinary appearance, but he is also a skilled police officer greatly respected by his colleagues. He does, however, get quite a lot of help from his wife, Emmy, who quite...