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Portrait image of Kevin Brooks Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2009)

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Brooks, Kevin

Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter and has studied Philosophy and Psychology at Aston University in Birmingham and in London. Brooks has had many different types of jobs, for example as an assistant at a crematorium, at a petrol station, with the railways, the post, as a maintenance worker at London Zoo and as a municipal civil servant. But he has always felt that he really wanted to become a...

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Coles, Manning

Manning Coles is a joint pseudonym for the English duo Adelaide Manning and Cyril Coles, who also worked together under another alias, Francis Gaite. The two last Manning Coles novels, Search for a Sultan (1961) and The House at Pluck’s Gutter (1963), were however written by Coles together with Tom Hammerton after Manning had died. It is also possible – although it has not been confirmed – that he...

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