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  • It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.

    English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...

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Portrait of Alexandra Marinina

Marinina, Alexandra
1957 -

Alexandra Marinina is the pseudonym of Marina Anatolyevna Alekseyeva, a Russian author born in Lviv, western Ukraine. Her...

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Portrait image of Ronald A. Knox

Knox, Ronald A.
1888 - 1957

Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was a well-known and much loved English Catholic priest, theologian and author of crime...

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Författarporträtt av Lindell, Unni

Lindell, Unni
1957 -

Unni Maria Lindell is one of Norway’s most productive and best selling authors. Although she is best known for her crime n...

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Författarporträtt av Bolton, Sharon

Bolton, Sharon
1960 -

The English author Sharon Bolton was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, as the oldest of three girls. She grew up in Darwen and...

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