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Lawrence Norfolk
While tending to his father’s business affairs, John Lempriere, a young scholar, discovers a 150-year-old conspiracy that has kept his family from its share of the fabulously wealthy East India…
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The tale of the sinking of a Portuguese ship off the coast of Italy in 1516, while attempting to deliver a rhinoceros to Pope Leo X. The hero, Salvestro, is…
From the bestselling author of Lempriere’s Dictionary, Lawrence Norfolk is back with an astounding new historical novel
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A juggernaut of a novel, a tour de force of love and betrayal, ancient myths and modern horrors, this story begins in the world of mythic Greece, where a dark…
An international bestseller and winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize, Lempriere’s Dictionary is the debut novel from one of England’s most innovative young authors.
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The Pope’s Rhinoceros is a vivid, antic, and picaresque novel spun around one of history’s most bizarre chapters: the 16th century attempt to procure a rhinoceros as a bribe for…
In 18th-century London, a young writer of a classic mythology dictionary finds himself heir to a mystery–one that leads to a 150-year-old conspiracy that has kept his family from its…
Peter Zilahy
This dictionary-novel of dictatorship is a thrilling personal journey behind the Iron Curtain - and like nothing you have read before.
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