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Simon A’s Review: Memoirs of a Master Forger, by William Heaney
Posted on October 16, 2008 by Simon Appleby
I am really looking forward to reading this! I’ve got mine pre-ordered at Waterstones on Oxford Street – just in time to read whilst travelling by Eurostar to Bruges.
If it’s a Joyce novel, then it’s sold on me already as I’ve recently discovered ‘The Tooth Fairy’.
Intrigued about how Joyce conveys demons or weakness etc., as ’embodiments’. And, I enjoyed your closing … sounds like it’s still milling around your head and will for a while.
In general, I love when authors leave just enough for the reader’s own imagination without tying up every loose end, dotting every i and crossing every t.
Since I was lucky enough to win a copy of “The Gargoyle” in the bookgeeks comp (thanks again), my notes are definately going to be laid down on this one 🙂
I was talking to Graham Joyce last night (do I hear the ‘thud’ of a dropped name?) and he said that whilst his books generally get ordered in ones and twos by booskshops, this has gone to a second printing in a week! His dilemma is this: is his next book going to be by Graham Joyce or William Heaney?
I speculated that it might be that people think WH is somehow related to Seamus Heaney….
Interesting… I noticed that in Books Etc it was housed on the main fiction shelves rather than SF&F and Horror – it’s debatable whether they would have done that if it had his own name on the cover.