A review by alexrafinski
The Book Forger: The true story of a literary crime that fooled the world by Joseph Hone

informative tense medium-paced

5.0

What a brilliant book!  Normally if I am reading non-fiction I will have a novel on the go at the same time, and I nearly always get through 2 or 3 novels during the course of reading the non-fiction book.  But this book was almost impossible to put down.  Chapters alternate between telling the story of the forger and telling the story of the men involved in working out that his books were forgeries.  This isn't a whodunnit - we know who did it from the start.  But the journey the forger went on from a junior clerk to one of the most respected bibliophiles is fascinating, as is the detective work involved in unmasking him.