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Sample of authors
Tokarczuk, Olga
Polish author, born in the little village Klenica in western Poland, where her parents were teachers at a residential college, but from the age of one she grew up in the town of Kietrz. As an adult, Olga Tokarczuk moved to Warsaw, trained as a Jungian psychologist and has also worked as a psychotherapist. She has since lived in many places, but is now settled in Wroclaw and Nowa Ruda close to...
Literary figures
Joshua Clunk
Gender: Male
He is a lawyer and one of the more unsympathetic problem solvers in crime fiction. He is a greedy hypocrite and uses dubious juridical tricks to have his clients found ‘not guilty’. He likes best to be at home with his only wife, whom author H.C.Bailey variously calls Maria, Rachel and Emma. But when he wants to be, Joshua Clunk is also a skilful detective who manages to prove the innocence of sev...