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The prolific AN Wilson’s past works include biographies of Sir Walter Scott, Leo Tolstoy, CS Lewis, Hilaire Belloc, John Milton, John Betjeman, Iris Murdoch, Jesus, St Paul, Dante Alighieri, Adolf Hitler, Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth II, Charles Darwin and the city of London. He has also made studies of eras in

The Victorians, After the Victorians, Our Times and The Elizabethans and written on religious topics. The 18 novels he wrote before Aftershocks have included works based on Captain Cook’s final voyage ( Resolution), the life of Josiah Wedgwood ( The Potter’s Hand) and the Profumo Affair ( Scandal).