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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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Horst, Jørn Lier
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Cole, Martina
1959 -
Martina Cole is one best-selling British authors of the 21st century; according to the mass media, only Harry Potter’s c...
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O'Brien, Maureen
1943 -
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Tvedt, Chris
1954 -
The Norwegian author Baard Christian Tvedt was born in Bergen. He read architecture at the University of Birmingham, but...
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