Lawrence Norfolk
Lawrence Norfolk was born in London in 1963. He has written three novels: It is 18th-century London and John Lempriere, a young scholar, is writing a dictionary of classical mythology in an attempt to exorcise the demons raised by his father's ... [... more]
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Lempriere's Dictionary: A Novel
 Like lasagna, even better the second time: I really enjoyed this book the first time, but in reading it the second time, it was even better. Ok, so the suspense wasn't quite the same, but a lot of the narrative/plot made more sense. Reviewers on this [... more]
$19.00
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The Thought Gang
The Thought Gang recounts the wild adventures of a philosophy lecturer and his one-eyed, one-legged, ex-convict partner as they blaze across France committing a series of bank robberies--all inspired by great works of philosophy. A booze-fueled, high- [... more]
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Lempriere's Dictionary
An international best-seller and winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize, Lemprieres Dictionary is the debut novel from Lawrence Norfolk, one of England's most innovative, internationally acclaimed young authors. In eighteenth-century London, John Lempriere [... more]
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Lempriere's Dictionary
Author: Lawrence Norfolk Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 1992 [... more]
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In the Shape of a Boar
Erudite and intellectually exhausting.: This is a Very Serious Work, one that cannot be read (or summarized) quickly without doing it an injustice. A newly created, "classical" epic for the first hundred pages, it has larger than life heroes [... more]
$25.00
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Ex-Libris: A Novel
Ex-Ex-Libris - originality and three-dimensional characters must be on holiday: Ross King is clearly not an unintelligent man. I had mentally "bookmarked" his non-fiction, as it looked fascinating, and clearly he's done an enormous amount of [... more]
$24.95
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In the Shape of a Boar
Erudite and intellectually exhausting.: This is a Very Serious Work, one that cannot be read (or summarized) quickly without doing it an injustice. A newly created, "classical" epic for the first hundred pages, it has larger than life heroes [... more]
$13.00
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The Pope's Rhinoceros
Amazon.com Review: In the tradition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Umberto Eco, Lawrence Norfolk has created a dizzyingly dense and impressively erudite fantasy of a novel, a vast edifice based around a single, actual historical event: the sinking off the [... more]
$16.00
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Ex-Libris
Ex-Ex-Libris - originality and three-dimensional characters must be on holiday: Ross King is clearly not an unintelligent man. I had mentally "bookmarked" his non-fiction, as it looked fascinating, and clearly he's done an enormous amount of [... more]
$15.00
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Lempriere's Dictionary
Like lasagna, even better the second time: I really enjoyed this book the first time, but in reading it the second time, it was even better. Ok, so the suspense wasn't quite the same, but a lot of the narrative/plot made more sense. Reviewers on this [... more]
$15.00
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Ex-Libris: A Novel (Dorothy Martin Mysteries)
Ex-Ex-Libris - originality and three-dimensional characters must be on holiday: Ross King is clearly not an unintelligent man. I had mentally "bookmarked" his non-fiction, as it looked fascinating, and clearly he's done an enormous amount of [... more]
$24.95
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