Lawrence Norfolk

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1. Lawrence Norfolk

   Author of Lemprière's Dictionary, The Pope's Rhinoceros, In the Shape of a Boar

2. Peter Ackroyd

   Author of The Clerkenwell Tales, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, First Light

3. Julian Barnes

   Author of A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Flaubert's Parrot, Staring at the Sun

4. Allen Kurzweil

   Author of The Grand Complication, A Case of Curiosities

5. Arturo Pérez-Reverte

   Author of The Club Dumas, The Flanders Panel, The Seville Communion

6. A.S. Byatt

   Author of Angels and Insects, Babel Tower, The Biographer's Tale

7. Charles Palliser

   Author of The Quincunx, The Unburied

8. Barry Unsworth

   Author of Sacred Hunger, Morality Play, Losing Nelson

9. Iain Pears

   Author of An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Dream of Scipio

10. Richard Barber

    Author of Legends of Arthur, British Myths and Legends, Epics of the Middle Ages

11. Peter Carey

    Author of Jack Maggs, My Life as a Fake, Illywhacker

12. Umberto Eco

    Author of Baudolino, The Island of the Day Before

13. Anthony Burgess

    Author of Earthly Powers, A Dead Man in Deptford

14. Michael Frayn

    Author of Headlong, Spies

15. Bruce Chatwin

    Author of Utz, The Viceroy of Ouidah

16. John Banville

    Author of The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable

17. Ross King

    Author of Ex-Libris

18. John Matthews

    Author of King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero, Celtic Myths and Legends

19. Matthew Kneale

    Author of English Passengers

20. Tibor Fischer

    Author of The Thought Gang, The Collector Collector: A Novel