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From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Date: 20051211
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Byline: SIMON SHAW

The year got off to a flying start with Colm Toibin's The Master (Picador [pounds sterling]7.99 . [pounds sterling]7.99 free p&p), a wonderfully sympathetic exploration of the interior landscape of the great American novelist Henry James. A novelist writing a novel about another novelist perhaps sounds claustrophobic, but I can't think of a finer fictional illustration of the relationship between an artist's life and work.

Alan Hollinghurst's The Line Of Beauty (Picador [pounds sterling]7.99 . [pounds sterling]7.99 free p&p) deservedly won last year's ...

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