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Sample of authors
Billingham, Mark
The British author Mark Philip David Billingham was born in Solihull, Warwickshire, and grew up near Birmingham where he attended King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys at King’s Heath. His father left the family when Mark was six years old. When his mother remarried eight years later, she and her husband moved away. Mark Billingham was then seventeen years old and found accommodation near his s...
Literary figures
Alix London
Gender: Female
Her world fell apart when her father, an internationally renowned art expert, was jailed for fraud. The young Alix recovered, trained as a curator and made herself a career in Seattle while she got back into contact with her father. She is now solving art crime with the help of him and the FBI in a series of novels by the husband and wife team Aaron and Charlotte Elkins.