'Spell-binding entertainment, richly imagined, painstakingly researched, superbly paced and utterly gripping' - Michael Dibdin, Independent on Sunday
Lawrence Norfolk was born in London in 1963. He has written four novels of historical fiction.
Bawdy baroque-punk prose of marvellous fluency, overlaid with a
gloss of heavy-weight erudition... an astonishing achievement,
little short of a masterpiece
*Independent on Sunday*
A gargantuan, dazzling fable by Britain's brightest young
writer
*Guardian*
A story of adventure enthralling in its scope and inventiveness, by
turns comic and horrific, zestful and elegaic, involving a
reclusive order of monks whose church is slowly sliding into the
sea; Renaissance Rome with its sexual license and political
rivalries; war and atrocity in the Central Italian States; and a
remote tribe in the West African rain forest. Running through this
variegated fable is the search for the rhinoceros. The exuberance,
the sheer proliferation of incident and scene, are disciplined and
controlled by unerring narrative pace and cunning
*Daily Telegraph*
A truly fabulous piece of new British fiction
*Observer*
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