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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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Collins, Wilkie
1824 - 1889
The British author Wilkie Collins (William Wilkie Collins) wrote a series of extremely successful novels as well as a...
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Dahl, Arne
1963 -
For a long time, there was speculation as to who could lie behind the crime-writer pseudonym Arne Dahl. Considering the...
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Grangé, Jean-Christophe
1961 -
Jean-Christophe Grangé is an award-winning French author and journalist born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris. Little is ...
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Dibdin, Michael
1947 - 2007
Michael Dibdin was a British crime writer born in Wolverhampton. His father was a teacher. The family moved to Northern...
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