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Can I read The Pretender on EtoBox?
The Pretender by David Belbin is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Pretender about?
Mark Trace shows a remarkable talent for literary forgery. A gap year in Paris sees his skill exploited by a manuscript dealer. Mark fetches up in London, working at one of the UK's oldest literary magazines. That's when the trouble really starts. Hemingway and Graham Greene are only the beginning. What starts as a prank soon becomes deadly serious. In this literary thriller David Belbin writes about originality, desire and literary ambition, in the voice of a character with the capacity to deceive everyone, including himself.
Who reads The Pretender?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- David Belbin
- Publisher
- Five Leaves Publications
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781907869334
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (254 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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