Diderot, Denis
1713 - 1784

French author and philosopher born in the city of Langres in north-east France. He was the son of a wealthy knife maker and...

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Beckett, Simon
1960 -

English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at h...

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Thompson, Arthur Leonard Bell
1917 - 1975

Francis Clifford is the pseudonym of Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson, a major British author of crime fiction and spy...

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Brooks, Kevin
1959 -

Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter and has studied Philosophy and Psychology at Aston University in Birmingham and in London....

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