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Sample of authors
Wetering, Janwillem van de
Janwillem (actually Jan Willem) van de Wetering was a Dutch author born in Rotterdam to a merchant family. After graduating with a degree in business administration, van de Wetering travelled to Cape Town at the age of nineteen. He had been offered a job by one of his father’s business contacts, but he lost it when he refused to move to Johannesburg. He remained in South Africa for another six y...
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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...
