
Sample of authors
Meyer, Deon
Deon Meyer is something of a rarity in that he is a South African crime writer who has had his crime novels, written in Afrikaans, translated for the international market. He was born in Paarl in the Cape Province and grew up in Klerksdorp, in north-western South Africa where his father worked in a gold mine. Deon Meyer matriculated in 1976 at Schoonspruit High School in Klerksdorp. He gained a...

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Mina, Denise
Denise Mina is a Scottish lawyer and author of crime novels. She was born in East Kilbride, Glasgow. Her father was an oil engineer who worked on platforms in the North Sea, which meant that the family often moved homes – they moved 21 times in 18 years. Mina grew up in Paris, The Hague, Bergen, London, Perth and Invergordon, but she spent most of her school holidays with her mother’s relatives in...