Even had the notoriously difficult Seabrook been willing to talk, he died in 2009 at the age of 48, having completed only one further book.
These paths between novels – the publishers promise a further book in the same loose sequence – suggest a taste for Norse and Lawrentian saga.
On the strength of this prize, Laurence left his job, and signed contracts for a further book of poems, and a life of the architect and dramatist Sir John Vanbrugh.
Stokes went on to apply his approach to Plato's Apology in an edition of that work with translation and commentary published in 1997 and to the Crito in a further book, Dialectic in Action (2005).
On Friday, Publishing Perspectives reported that the RWU had submitted a petition to Russian president Vladimir Putin, asking him to prevent any further book burnings and clarify whether other books financed by foreign sources would be at risk of being destroyed.
There have long been rumours that Larsson – who died of a heart attack in 2004 aged 50, before publication of his debut The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo – had written at least part of a further book in the series which was yet to be published.
