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Portrait image of John Connolly Photo: Rober Solsona/Europa Press/Getty Image (2022)

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Connolly, John

Irish author, born and raised in Dublin. After finishing school, he worked for a few years, including jobs as a bartender and waiter, before starting to study at Trinity College in his home city. After graduating with a B.A. in English, he went on to study Journalism at Dublin City University, gaining an M.A. in 1993. He did freelance work for The Irish Times but got tired of that and decided to...

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Portrait image of Clare Mackintosh Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2016)

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Mackintosh, Clare

English author Clare Mackintosh has been amply awarded at home and abroad, mainly for her crime novels. She was born in Bristol, and grew up in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, where she went to high school. She attended Royal Holloway University in Surrey, where she majored in management and French, and worked for a year as a business secretary in Paris at the end of the course. However, she wanted...

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