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Slough House (novel series)

British spy novels

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Slough House is a series of spy novels by the British author Mick Herron. Herron began writing the first volume, Slow Horses, in 2008, and published it in 2010.

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The public source identifies “Slough House (novel series)” as british spy novels. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Slough, House and novel.

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This entry incorporates text from “Slough House (novel series)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.