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From: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
Date: 20010408
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Byline: RICHARD WILLIAMSON

TAKE a little touch of Noel Coward, a hint of Evelyn Waugh, a pinch of P.G. Wodehouse plus a dash of Ernest Hemingway for spice and you get some idea of Jim Williams's new novel.

The Strange Death of a Romantic (Scribner pounds 16.99) is also filled with echoes of the curious European wanderings of the poet Shelley and his wife, Frankenstein creator Mary, along with mad, bad and dangerous to know Byron.

Williams loves playing literary games but this ...

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