Sample of authors
Cole, G.D.H.
He was born in Cambridge as George Douglas Howard Cole, but got his basic schooling at St. Paul’s School in London. He subsequently started at Oxford University, his subjects including classical and modern literature, and he gained a good degree. He got a position as professor of philosophy at the University of Durham 1913-14, but then returned to London where he did research for an organisation o...
Literary figures
Çetin Ìkmen
Gender: Male
He is a self-willed detective in the police force of his birth city Istanbul, which he loves with all his heart. But he is well aware of the city’s less savoury sides, and the memory of crimes he has investigated has meant that he chain-smokes and also drinks too much – which greatly upsets his Muslim wife Fatma. Together the couple have a lot of children and the number steadily grows in Barbara N...