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Carl Shuker: A Mistake

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Simon Sweetman
Apr 08, 2019
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A Mistake 
 
Carl Shuker 
 
VUP 

 
The literary page-turner – a rare beast. Pip Adam can do it. John Colapinto managed it with both fiction and non-fiction and here Carl Shuker manages it and essentially turns non-fiction into fiction, or frames fiction via non-fiction and/or vice-versa. But what’s true, instantly, of A Mistake, his fifth novel, is that the w…

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