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Cannonbridge by Jonathan Barnes

kjcharles's review

Weird. The premise is that there's a famous writer, Matthew Cannonbridge, who interacted with Byron, Poe, Dickens, the Brontes etc and who is Britain's favourite writer, but a downtrodden university lecturer suddenly decides that he can't possibly have existed, and then becomes the target of a large scale high tech conspiracy. It is EXTREMELY meta, particularly as the plot develops, and ends with a twist so meta-ly meta it's going fractal. Your reaction to this will doubtless depend on your tolerance for smartarsery. I rather enjoyed the concept and delivery, though the end section went a bit over the top for me.