The 2* rating I’ve given AS IF in no way reflects on the excellence of the narrative, which leads one to read compulsively from page to page. Rather, my rating of this book is to highlight what is mostly forgotten in this book: that a society, which forgets the victims of a crime in its concern for ...
A fictional account of the man who invented printing but, paradoxically, left little recorded evidence of his life. Plenty of scope for the author's imagination, then. And Blake Morrison does his subject justice, skilfully conjuring up the atmosphere of fifteenth century Germany - a hotbed of politi...
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