Caro Carver
Hello, and thank you for visiting my Goodreads page. I have been writing for as long as I can remember, using my grandparents old Remington typewriter to create little novels that I sent to publishers. I am a poet and novelist published in 23 languages, and have published a number of gothic fiction novels as C.J. Cooke. I hold a PhD in literature from Queen's University Belfast and work full-time at the University of Glasgow, where I teach Creative Writing. Scotland is a cool place to live; however, I do enjoy setting my thrillers in warm and sunny places :)
I am publishing my very first thriller as Caro Carver, Bad Tourists, in 2024. Set in the Maldives, it is optioned for a TV series and I am SO excited for everyone to read it! I am curren
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Gordon Kendrew Pape, B.A.; author, broadcaster, lecturer; b. San Francisco, Cal. 1936; came to Can. 1950; e. Three Rivers High Scho., Trois Rivieres, Que. 1954; Carleton Univ. B.A. 1959; Univ. of Toulouse 1960-61 (Rotary Foundation Fellowship); Pres., Gordon Pape Enterprises; Educ. Writer The Gazette Montreal 1961-63, Que. Bureau Chief 1963-66, Parlty. -
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