Lawrence Norfolk

Lawrence Norfolk (born 1963) is a British novelist known for historical works with complex plots and intricate detail.

He worked briefly as a teacher and later as a freelance writer for reference book publishers.

[2] It imagines the writing of Lemprière's dictionary as tied to the founding of the British East India Company and the Siege of La Rochelle generations before; it also visits the Austro-Turkish War.

Themes in the work include the lost city of Vineta in the Baltic, the sack of Prato, and the Benin bronze-making culture on the river Niger.

The third novel, In the Shape of a Boar, juxtaposes the flight of a Bukovina Jew in World War II with the legend of Atalanta in Calydon.