Adrian White is an Anglo-Irish writer. A native of
Manchester
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United Kingdom
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, White wrote his first novel when aged twenty-one. He graduated from the
University of Manchester
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Galway City
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in 1990 to work for
Eason Eason is a surname.
The name comes from Aythe where the first recorded spelling of the family name is that of Aythe Filius Thome which was dated circa 1630, in the "Baillie of Stratherne". Aythe ''filius'' Thome received a charter of the lands of F ...
's booksellers.
Bibliography
* ''An Accident Waiting to Happen’'',
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