Lawrence Norfolk
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
An international best-seller and winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize, Lempriere's Dictionary is the debut novel from Lawrence Norfolk, one of England's most innovative, internationally acclaimed young authors. In eighteenth-century London, John Lempriere works feverishly on a celebrated dictionary of classical mythology that bears his name. He discovers a conspiracy against his family dating back 150 years. Told with the narrative drive of a political...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Language
English
Description
Lawrence Norfolk's In the Shape of a Boar is a juggernaut of a novel, an epic tour de force of love and betrayal, ancient myths and modern horrors. The story begins in the ancient world of mythic Greece, where a dark tale of treachery and destructive love unfolds amid the hunt for the Boar of Kalydon-a tale that will reverberate in those same hills across the millennia in the final chaotic months of World War II, as a band of Greek partisans pursues...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A 16th Century Portuguese expedition to Africa to catch a rhinoceros for the pope. It is led by a mystic mercenary from the Baltic and its object is to gain the support of Pope Leo X for Portugal in its overseas wars with Spain, a rhinoceros being considered the ultimate gift for the man who has everything. By the author of Lampriere's Dictionary.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Language
English
Description
Taken in at the kitchens at Buckland Manor after the cruel death of his mother, young John quickly rises from kitchen boy to cook before catching the attention of the daughter of the lord of the manor, who resolves to starve herself until her father calls off her unwanted engagement.
