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Lawrence Norfolk was born in London in 1963. He read English at King's College, London, graduating in 1986. He began teaching, studied for a Ph.D., and worked as a freelance writer on a number of reference books, contributing articles and reviews to magazines and journals including the Times Literary Supplement. He has written three novels; Lempri re's Dictionary, Pope's Rhinoceros and In the Shape of a Boar.
In 1600 the first ships of the newly formed East India Company set sail from England. In France, a few years later, the Huguenots of La Rochelle were crushed at the end of an epic siege. And towards the end of the next century a scholarly youth, John Lempriere, set forth from Jersey on the journey which would see the publication of his acclaimed Classical Dictionary in 1788. Around these historical facts Lawrence Norfolk has woven an intriguing web of conspiracy, revenge and murder which reaches across the centuries. It is a rich and assured first novel, confident in its structure, lush in its prose, with a central mystery which will tease and intrigue readers as they attempt to unravel it through this massive and vivid portrait of life at the end of the 18th century. (Kirkus UK)
