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Sample of authors
Cole, Martina
Martina Cole is one best-selling British authors of the 21st century; according to the mass media, only Harry Potter’s creator J.K. Rowling has achieved greater economic success. If Cole is popular with readers, the opposite applies to the critics: on the whole, bloggers are the only commentators who give her positive reviews, and even though she has been nominated for several literary prizes, s...
Literary figures
Jackson Lamb
Gender: Male
Misanthropic boss of Slough House, a department for discharged spies and agents in the British MI5. Jackson Lamb, a central figure in a suite of novels by Mick Herron, is a former spy who has gone to seed. He is tall, has an ‘offensive’ face, is cynical and sarcastic, a chain smoker and is careless about his personal hygiene. This doesn’t prevent him and his department from managing to solve sever...