
Sample of authors
Hill, Reginald
The British author Reginald Charles Hill was born in West Hartlepool, Durham, but he moved with his family to Carlisle, Cumberland (now Cumbria) when he was three years old after his father, a professional footballer, had been bought by Carlisle United. Reginald Hill attended Stanwix School where he med Patricia "Pat" Ruell. They were married in 1960. The marriage was childless, but the couple...

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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...