num_pages: 626
description: 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 violent and bizarre death. While tending to his father's business affairs, Lempriere discovers a 150-year old conspiracy that has kept his family from its share of the fabulously wealthy East India Company. But as John begins to untangle the years of mystery and deceit, people begin to die, in ways that mirror the very myths he is researching....An international best-seller and winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize, Lempriere's Dictionary is the debut novel from Lawrence Norfolk, one of England's most innovative, internationally acclaimed young authors.
language: English
title: Lemprière's Dictionary
titlecomplete: Lemprière's Dictionary
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, British Literature, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Unfinished, Mythology
ratings_count: 1209
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Harmony