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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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Childers, Erskine

The British author Robert Erskine Childers (not to be confused with his son Erskine Hamilton Childers, the fourth president of Ireland) was a famous and feared advocate of Irish independence in the early 20th century who was executed for being in possession of illegal arms. Apart from several non-fiction books, he was the author of The Riddle of the Sands (1903), considered as one of the best...

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