James read and liked Joanna's review of Memoirs of a Master Forger:

"This novel is by Graham Joyce, and the 1st person protagonist is William Heaney. So it's really by Heaney after all, right? Well, most of it is. Be warned that, like many Joyce books, this one casts the Must...Keep...Reading spell. Bedtime comes and ...more This novel is by Graham Joyce, and the 1st person protagonist is William Heaney. So it's really by Heaney after all, right? Well, most of it is. Be warned that, like many Joyce books, this one casts the Must...Keep...Reading spell. Bedtime comes and bedtime goes, and you keep on turning pages. Literary history is almost a character in these pages, and the work has a deliciously fraught relationship with contemporary poetry. At the end you may find yourself turning the ideas of forgery and authenticity over and over in your mind, trying to tease out what it all means.(less) "