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Sample of authors
Parsons, Tony
English author and journalist, born and grew up as the only child in a working-class family in Romford, Essex. When Tony Parsons was five years old the family moved to Billericay, also in Essex, where he grew up. He attended Barstable Grammar School in Basildon, which he left at the age of 16 with rotten grades. In the years immediately after that, he had several short, menial jobs, including a...
Literary figures
John Poole
Gender: Male
When Henry Wade (pseudonym for Henry Aubrey-Fletcher) introduced the pipe-smoking police detective John Poole in 1934, he was a new type of police officer in crime fiction: well brought-up, charming, with an academic education and from a good family. He is just over 180cm tall, athletically built, with a firm mouth and grey eyes. He becomes a police officer when he is only 23 years old, and a...