Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in

Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in

Using examples from popular novels, this work examines the techniques by which fiction works. It explains how the pleasures of novel reading often come from the

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