Book Forger The true story of a literary crime that fooled the world
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Joseph Hone is a prize-winning writer and academic specialising in the history of the book. He studied and taught at Oxford, before holding fellowships at Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale. He is the author of The Paper Chase, which was longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown, and The Book Forger, publishing in 2024. In 2022 he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Languages and Literatures. He lives in Newcastle with his wife and son, and spends much of his time either on the coast or scrabbling around in second-hand bookshops.'This is <b>an absolutely fascinating literary detective story</b>. <b>Real-life audacious crimes uncovered by the most intrepid amateur detectives</b>, investigated all over again a hundred years later here, in <b>delicious forensic detail</b>, by Joseph Hone. <b>A must-read </b>for anyone enthralled by the value and integrity of books. <b>A page turner about page turners'</b>
Janice Hallett, author of The Alperton Angels
'I loved this <b>elegant untangling of a real-life literary mystery</b>. With a cast stretching from Robert Browning to Dorothy L Sayers, it's <b>the perfect piece of armchair detection for any book lover'</b>
Ruth Ware, author of The Woman in Cabin 10
'Joseph Hone’s <b>hugely entertaining</b> new account shows how this ‘<b>Moriarty of the book world’ met his match in a duo of intrepid young book dealers</b> ... <b><i>The Book Forger</i> unfolds as a propulsive if unlikely thriller </b>[and] also a useful reflection on literary forgery in general, which<b> speaks to our own era of post-truth and deepfakes ... Unexpectedly gripping'</b>
Gill Partington, LRB
<b>Hone… [is] a dexterous guide and an astute contributor</b> to the long tradition of writers gripped by the connection between bibliography and crime
Times Literary Supplement
'<b>An extraordinary story, meticulously researched and beautifully written. Utterly enthralling</b>'
Shaun Bythell, author of The Diary of a Bookseller
<b>Hone is a lively and fluent writer, </b>ratcheting up the temperature with snappy sentences and chapters ending on cliffhangers
Sunday Telegraph
‘A<b> thrilling unravelling of bookish fraud</b> that <b>reads like a detective story from the golden age</b>’
Roland Philipps, author of A SPY NAMED ORPHAN
<b>Fascinating…</b> For all the thrills and shenanigans, the forensics and meticulous detail, this is <b>a curiously moving book</b>
Scotland on Sunday
'<b>Criminally sophisticated skulduggery</b> . . . A <b>thoroughly enjoyable romp </b>through an<b> infamous moment</b> in book history’
Oliver Darkshire, author of ONCE UPON A TOME
<b>Meticulously researched…</b> <i>The Book Forger </i>is delightfully and unapologetically bookish, offering glimpsed portraits of significant behind-the-scenes literary figures
Spectator
‘<b>Spies, detectives, forgers</b>, and The Case of the Kernless 'f'. Another <b>superb piece of narrative scholarship</b> from <b>the best storyteller in book history</b>’
Dennis Duncan, author of INDEX: A HISTORY OF THE
<b>'Intriguing, well-written, and impressively researched</b>, <i>The Book Forger</i> tells <b>a great story that is truly stranger than fiction</b>'
Martin Edwards, President of the Detection Club
This book has a great story to tell…and Joseph Hone narrates it brilliantly… Hone makes <b>a page-turning narrative</b> of their detective work
Literary Review