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Edwy Searles Brooks (11 November 1889 – 2 December 1965) was a British novelist who also wrote under the pen-names Berkeley Gray, Victor Gunn, Rex Madison, and Carlton Ross. Brooks was born in Hackney, London. He is believed to have written around 40 million words.
Edwy Searles Brooks' first story was published in 1907 when he was 18. From that time until his death in 1965, he wrote over a hundred novels and more than 2000 other stories. Under the pen-name of Berkeley Gray, he gave us the Norman Conquest novels and as Victor Gunn he wrote the "Ironsides" Cromwell books.
Edwy Searles Brooks was born in Hackney, London on 11th November, 1889. His unusual Christian name is from Edwy the Fair, a Welsh king, and was said to be a celebration of baby Edwy's remarkably fair hair.
Nov 13, 2020 · Edwy Searles Brooks was a prolific writer of juvenile story paper fiction, particularly detective stories. He began his writing career in 1907 with the publication of ‘Mr Dorien’s Missing £2000’ in Yes or No magazine.
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Edwy Searles Brooks was a British novelist who also wrote under the pen-names Berkeley Gray, Victor Gunn, Rex Madison, Reginald Browne and Carlton Ross. Brooks was born in Hackney, London.
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- December 2, 1965
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2nd Collins, Oct-40, 284pp, 4s. 2 Ironsides of the Yard. (R/P from Thrillers 556, 558, 560) IN this new story of Chief - Inspector William Cromwell—Ironsides of the Yard—Mr. Victor Gunn has selected a grim theme which strikes a topical note.
This utilitarian use of sf motifs – Lost Worlds and Inventions appear and reappear, inconsequentially, throughout his children's fiction – mark the exceedingly prolific and canny Brooks as a figure in the field to be noted, but not concentrated upon, although his speed and functional prose were an early and continuing inspiration to John ...
