The art of fiction by john gardner6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() After several other thrillers came his successful trilogy about Herbie Kruger, comprising The Nostradamus Traitor, The Garden of Weapons and The Quiet Dogs. His first book was the autobiographical Spin the Bottle, shortly followed by eight novels about his famous character Boysie Oakes, the agent who always blundered while retaining a paradoxical sense of schoolboy humour. Back in England, and once more a civilian, he continued his interrupted education at St John's College, Cambridge, eventually ending up as drama and art critic on the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, where he began to write plays in his spare time. Educated at King Alfred's School, Wantage, he served with 42 Commando, Royal Marines, at the end of World War II. ![]() Born in 1926, John Gardner lived his first years in the bleak mining village of Seaton Delaval near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. ![]()
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