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Peter Ackroyd's Plato's Papers is an extraordinary novel, which, as with the best of Ackroyd's fiction, treads a thin line between fantasy and biography, the genre so elegantly mastered by Ackroyd in his now classic studies Dickens, T S Eliot and most recently The Life of Thomas More. The Plato Papers is a wonderfully observed satire on the ways in which historians and biographers can comically but also dangerously misrepresent the past and the arrogance which comes with philosophical certainty. A funny, wise and salutary novel. --Jerry Brotton
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