Meny
Portrait of Lynda La Plante Photo: David M Benett/Getty Images (2016)

Sample of authors

La Plante, Lynda

Lynda La Plante is a British author, television producer and actor born Lynda Titchmarsh in Formby near Liverpool. Her writing career is an unusual one. Several of her books are based on television screenplays and films, others were originally novels that were later adapted, normally for television. She has won a string of awards and was awarded an OBE in 2008.
La Plante was raised in and...

Further reading

Literary figures

Salvo (Salvatore) Montalbano

Gender: Male

Commissario Montalbano, named by the author Andrea Camilleri for the Spanish crime writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, was born in Sicily, and he works in the fictional town of Vigàta there. He is short-tempered and stubborn, which causes a great deal of problems, but deep down he is a hardworking, energetic professional who is in a long-distance relationship with his fiancé, Livia Burlando.

Further reading