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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 has 144 books on Goodreads with 11240 ratings. Victor Canning’s most popular book is Mr Finchley Discovers His England (Mr Finchley, #1).
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.
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, ...
Dec 18, 2014 · Victor Canning was a prolific writer who would surely be as famous as Ian Fleming if he had managed to write a little less. Certainly in the 1950s he was better known than Fleming in Britain and the United States.
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.
Dec 20, 2020 · Victor Canning (1911-1986) was a prolific author of some sixty books and one hundred short stories in a career spanning over fifty years. His first novel; Mr Finchley Discovers His England was first published in 1934 but it would be from the 1050s through to…
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.
by Victor Canning. 4.35 · 312 Ratings · 28 Reviews · published 2009 · 1 edition. Book 3 of the classic trilogy of humorous rural…. More. Want to Read. Rate it: Mr Finchley Discovers His England (Mr Finchley, #1), Mr Finchley Goes to Paris (Mr Finchley, #2), and Mr Finchley Takes the Road (Mr Finchley, #3)
Summary. Two BBC Radio 4 adaptations of Victor Canning’s comic novels about the exploits of a shy solicitor’s clerk, starring Richard Griffiths.
