Andrew Norman Wilson (b. 1950) is an English writer and newspaper columnist, known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history and religious views. He has been an occasional contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator and The Observer. In 1983 he was selected as one of Granta‘s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’. His most recent work is Victoria: A Life (2014).
‘His father had visited a prostitute and had been a spy. It was quite obvious to Julian that this was true. He was almost pleased to read it, for it justified his sense, never admitted to himself before, that Daddy Spoilt Everything.’
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