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Sample of authors
James, Peter
The British author and film producer Peter James was born in Hove and grew up in Brighton, Sussex. His British father, Jack Burnett James was an accountant, his Austrian mother Cornelia something of a celebrity as a glovemaker for the British royal family. The young James was a pupil at the Charterhouse boarding school in Godalming in Sussex, and he went on to study for two years at the...
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Sample of authors
Guillou, Jan
Swedish author and journalist, who was born in Södertälje and grew up in Saltsjöbaden. Jan Guillou, who has French ancestry (his paternal grandfather was the French ambassador in Helsinki), dropped out of his university studies in Law, and instead concentrated his efforts on a career as a journalist, at an early stage becoming known for his committed and politically radical reporting – Guillou has...