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Allbeury, Ted
The British author of espionage fiction Theodore Edward le Bouthillier Allbeury was born in Stockport, Cheshire. His father was an army officer who was killed a few days before the end of the First World War. His mother moved with her two children first to Essex and later to Allbeury’s paternal grandparents in Birmingham where he first attended the Slade Primary School at Erdington and later the K...
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Grytten, Frode
Frode Grytten is a Norwegian author and journalist born and raised in Odda, a small industrial community in southwest Norway. His mother was a hairdresser and his father a furniture salesman. He now lives with his wife and children in Bergen where he moved as a student. He began to write at an early age and has, among other things, worked for the Bergen’s Tidende newspaper and the Magasinet I...