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Portrait image of Brian Freemantle Brian Freemantle as journalist In East Pakistan Photo: ANL/REX/TT

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Freemantle, Brian

Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...

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Portrait image of Helen MacInnes Photo: Arthur Schatz/Getty Images (1974)

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MacInnes, Helen

Helen Clark MacInnes was a Scottish-American author born in Glasgow. She moved with her family to Helensburgh in 1912 where she attended the Hermitage School and the Glasgow High School for Girls before enrolling at the University of Glasgow in 1925, graduating with an MA in German and French in 1928. She then worked in libraries and schools around Glasgow and Dunbartonshire. She received a...

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