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Published: February 16 2008 00:18 | Last updated: February 16 2008 00:18

How Fiction Works
By James Wood
Cape £12.99, 194 pages
FT bookshop price: £10.39

There’s a lot of toolkit-lit-crit around nowadays. The reader bent on self-improvement can choose between many: How Novels Work (John Mullan), How to Read a Poem (Terry Eagleton), How to Read a Novel (modesty forbids, but see below).

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