Notable people from Bury St Edmunds include author Norah Lofts, who though actually born in Shipdham Norfolk, bases many of her stories in Baildon, the fictionalised Bury St Edmunds, artist Rose Mead, artist and printer Sybil Andrews, actors Bob Hoskins and Michael Maloney theatre director Sir Peter Hall, author Maria Lousie de la Ramé ( also known as Ouida ), Canadian journalist and author Richard Gwyn, cyclist James Moore, World War II Canadian general Guy Simonds, footballer Andy Marshall and the 18th-century landscape architect Humphry Repton, Bishop of Winchester and Lord High Chancellor Stephen Gardiner.

This version was fictionalised by Arthur Conan Doyle in his historical novel Sir Nigel, in which Bemborough ( called Richard of Bambro ' in the novel ) accepts the rules of the challenge in a chivalric spirit, but the Franco-Bretons only win because one of the Breton squires mounts his horse, when the conflict was supposed to be on foot, and rides upon the English crushing them.

Variations of the theory involve the physician Sir William Gull, the artist Walter Sickert, and the poet James Kenneth Stephen to greater or lesser degrees, and have been fictionalised in novels and films, such as Murder by Decree and From Hell.

The English author Thomas Hardy used a fictionalised Wessex as a setting for many of his novels, adopting his friend William Barnes ' term Wessex for their home county of Dorset and its neighbouring counties in the south and west of England.

Although some of his contemporaries became the subject of chapbooks, names such as James Hind, Claude Duval and William Nevison, are not nearly as well-known today as the legend of Dick Turpin, whose fictionalised exploits first began to appear around the turn of the 19th century.

A largely fictionalised version of Raymond, renamed the Count of Tiberias in order to avoid first-name confusion with Raynald and geographical confusion with Tripoli in Libya, is played by Jeremy Irons in the 2005 movie Kingdom of Heaven, scripted by William Monahan.

A living fictionalised tribute to the genius, the work and the ideals of Bazalgette can be found in the historic Victorian novel The Worms of Euston Square by William Sutton.

William Ainsworth ’ s romantic novel Windsor Castle ( novel ) which began serialisation in 1842 contains a fictionalised account of the origins of Herne the Hunter set during the reign of Richard II.

The facade of Compton Wynates appears in two episodes of the first series of the television series The Tudors, providing a backdrop to fictionalised incidents in the life of William Compton, friend of Henry VIII.

* A fictionalised version of Arthur Balfour ( identified as " Mr. Balfour ") appears as British Prime Minister in the science fiction romance The Angel of the Revolution by George Griffith, published in 1893 ( when Balfour was still in opposition ) but set in an imagined near future of 1903-1905.

He appears as a fictionalised character in the Marcus Didius Falco novels The Silver Pigs, Shadows in Bronze, Three Hands in the Fountain, and The Jupiter Myth.

An entirely fictionalised, unambiguously wicked version of Conrad appears in Walter Scott's The Talisman, misspelled as ' Conrade of Montserrat ' ( the novelist apparently misreading ' f ' as a long's ' in his sources ) and described as a " marmoset " and " popinjay ".

In Michael Moorcock's series of Fantasy novels about Prince Corum, a fictionalised version of St Michael's Mount appears as Moidel's Mount.

* In Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, she appears in fictionalised form as Brutus ' wife.

* Tewodros, under the name Theodore, appears in George MacDonald Fraser's fictionalised account of the 1868 conflict, Flashman on the March, where he is portrayed as a volatile, bloodthirsty madman.

It appears as the " Saeth " in Patrick O ' Brian's 1952 novel Three Bear Witness ( published as Testimonies in the USA ), which is set in a fictionalised version of Cwm Croesor.

A fictionalised version of Malskat's painting of the Marienkirche frescoes appears in the Günter Grass novel The Rat.

A fictionalised account of Molineaux's boxing career appears in Black Ajax, by George MacDonald Fraser.

* A fictionalised Bell ' Francis Wood, Bishop of Cirencester ', appears in episode 17 of Anthony Horrowitz's TV serial Foyle's War, Plan of Attack.

The island of Armorel appears to be a fictionalised version of Sark ; the two islands occupy the same location near Herm and have many other similarities.

A fictionalised version of Anthony Wood is one of four narrators in Iain Pears ' 1998 novel An Instance of the Fingerpost, which is set in the early 1660s.

Scandal ( 1989 ) is a British drama film, a fictionalised account of the Profumo Affair based on 1987 Anthony Summers ' book Honeytrap.

* by Billy Drago, playing a fictionalised version of Nitti in the 1987 film, The Untouchables.

In 1987 Weldons published " Pemulwuy: The Rainbow Warrior " by Eric Willmot, a best-selling novel providing a fictionalised account using early colonial documents as source.

He fictionalised much of the material in his novel Lords of the Levels.

The main theme of the novel is preceded, and to some extent juxtaposed with, the story of the life and death of King Kashyapa I of Sri Lanka ( fictionalised as King Kalidasa ).

* The novel Hawksmoor, which features a fictionalised Christopher Wren

Horror writer and film journalist Kim Newman was educated at Dr Morgan's school in Bridgwater, and set his 1999 experimental novel Life's Lottery in a fictionalised version of the town ( Sedgwater ).

* The Swedish bestselling historical novel The Long Ships ( Red Orm ) includes a long fictionalised account of the Battle of Maldon, described from the Scandinavian side.

Leonowens's experiences in Siam were fictionalised in Margaret Landon's 1944 bestselling novel Anna and the King of Siam and in various films and television miniseries based on the book, most notably Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 hit musical The King and I.

Margaret Landon's novel Anna and the King of Siam ( 1944 ) provides a fictionalised look at Anna Leonowens's years at the royal court, developing the abolitionist theme that resonated with her American readership.

* In the novel Seven Ancient Wonders by Australian novelist Matthew Reilly, The Colossus is fictionalised to have been holding a piece of the Golden Capstone ( which fictionally sat atop the Great Pyramid ) and after being felled by the earthquake, was hidden in a trap laden abandoned mine.

The novel is partly set in a fictionalised East Anglian town called " Knype Hill ".

In 2002 Emma Tennant published Felony: The Private History of The Aspern Papers, a novel that fictionalised the relationship between James and American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson and the possible effects of that relationship on The Aspern Papers.

Her life story is fictionalised in Barbara Erskine's novel Daughters of Fire.

* Holland, Tom, The Sleeper in the Sands ( novel ), ( Abacus, 1998, ISBN 0-349-11223-1 ), a fictionalised adventure story based closely on the mysteries of Akhenaten's reign

* Bruce Sterling used a fictionalised Tuareg tribe in his novel Islands in the Net.

The town of Gilead, in Marilynne Robinson's novel of that title, is a fictionalised version of Tabor.

Janet Frame ( 1924-2004 ), New Zealand author, lived for a short period in 1963-64 in a rented cottage in Braiseworth, near Eye, where she began her novel An Adaptable Man, inspired by the local area, with Eye being fictionalised as ' Murston '.

More recently, his tale has been fictionalised by New Zealand author Maurice Shadbolt in his 1990 historical novel Monday's Warriors.

* Laura Joh Rowland wrote a fictionalised account of the 47 Ronin in her historical mystery novel The Ronin's Mistress.

* A fictionalised account of her life can also be found in the novel Queen of the Night by Alan Savage.

The novel The Drowner by Robert Drewe provides a fictionalised account of O ' Connor and the building of the pipeline.

* The Fourth Protocol, a novel by Frederick Forsyth uses a fictionalised Kim Philby as a central character, who conspires to smuggle a portable nuclear weapon into Britain.

* Alexandre Dumas, père used a fictionalised version of the Abbé in his famous novel The Count of Monte Cristo.

* John le Carré's novel A Murder of Quality takes place largely in a fictionalised version of Sherborne: Carne.

* Egdon Heath, which figures prominently in Thomas Hardy's celebrated novel The Return of the Native, is a fictionalised version of Studland Heath.

One of the island's most famous foreign gay exiles was Norman Douglas ; his novel South Wind ( 1917 ) is a thinly fictionalised description of Capri's residents and visitors, and a number of his other works, both books and pamphlets, deal with the island, including Capri ( 1930 ) and his last work, A Footnote on Capri ( 1952 ).