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Victor Canning (16 June 1911 – 21 February 1986) was a prolific British writer of novels and thrillers who flourished in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He was personally reticent, writing no memoirs and giving relatively few newspaper interviews.
Victor Canning was a prolific writer of novels and thrillers who flourished in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, but whose reputation has faded since his death in 1986. He was personally reticent, writing no memoirs and giving relatively few newspaper interviews.
Victor Canning has 144 books on Goodreads with 11250 ratings. Victor Canning’s most popular book is Mr Finchley Discovers His England (Mr Finchley, #1).
These pages celebrate the work of Victor Canning (1911 - 1986), a writer of sixty-one books altogether, including one travel book, eighteen novels both comic and serious, four historical novels set in Roman and Arthurian Britain, three children's books, two short story collections (plus an abundance of other stories) and thirty-three thrillers, ...
Victor Canning was a prolific writer of novels and thrillers who flourished in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, but whose reputation has faded since his death in 1986. He was personally reticent, writing no memoirs and giving relatively few newspaper interviews.
Victor Canning was a prolific writer throughout his career, which began young: he had sold several short stories by the age of nineteen and his first novel, Mr Finchley Discovers His England (1934) was published when he was twenty-three. It proved to be a runaway bestseller.
Canning, Victor. Entry updated 25 March 2024. Tagged: Author. (1911-1986) UK author whose surname at birth was Cannings but whose whole family changed their name to Canning.
Jan 1, 1973 · So begins The Finger of Saturn by the now out-of-favour British thriller writer Victor Canning (1911-86). Robert Rolt eventually finds his wife, Sarah, but when she comes back she's different. Is she who she says she is?
Jan 2, 2009 · Victor Canning (1911-1986) might be judged to have had three separate writing careers. From 1934 to 1940 he wrote novels which were mainly rustic comedies. After war service he became an established and very successful writer of light escapist thrillers.
Summary. Two BBC Radio 4 adaptations of Victor Canning’s comic novels about the exploits of a shy solicitor’s clerk, starring Richard Griffiths.
