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...Not since William Boyd’s Any Human Heart has a novel captured the feast and famine nature of a single life with such invention and tenderness....
...In one contrarian aside, the narrator prefers the “often enthralling” stories of Arthur Conan Doyle over Marcel Proust or Thomas Mann because Sherlock Holmes’s creator is “an exceptional page turner”....
...As with Roddy Doyle’s Dublin-set Barrytown triptych of novels, McInerney seeks to create “the same universe with three different stories and three different feelings to the books....
...Grant Doyle is not a physically or vocally dominant Giovanni but he has danger and allure written all over him....
...Arthur & George (Jonathan Cape £17.99), the fictionalised account of a true case involving Arthur Conan Doyle, reminds readers of Julian Barnes’ capacity for subtlety, empathy and characterisation....
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