Photo: Paul McNicholls / Camera Press / TT (1979)
Sample of authors
Household, Geoffrey
Geoffrey Edward West Household grew up in Bristol where he attended Clifton College in 1914–19. He went on to study English at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating in 1922. Immediately afterwards, he worked for a bank in Bucharest, Romania. In 1926, he moved to Spain where he sold bananas for a fruit company. In 1929, he went to the United States where he became a travelling salesman in printing i...
Literary figures
José da Silva
Gender: Male
He is tall and dark, with a thin, sun-tanned face which is distinguished by a well-trimmed moustache. He comes from a ‘fine’ family, which has not prevented him from getting a job with the police force, where José da Silva – called Zé by his friends – is promoted to police captain in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. He is a smoker, doesn’t like flying and successfully solves cases in a suite of novels by...