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- 1 2 Sam Taylor's top 10 books about forgetting guardian.co.uk April 18, 2007
- ↑ "2022 Sidewise Award Winners". 3 September 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
- ↑ Lichtig, Toby (11 March 2007), "Enter a beautifully perplexing world", The Daily Telegraph , retrieved 31 May 2008[ dead link ]
- ↑ "One of the most compelling chapters is a fake biography for a fictional Czech philosopher called Tomas Ryal. (Taylor, somewhat cheekily, has "quoted" from Ryal in interview, and someone has, even more cheekily, given him a Wikipedia entry.)" Toby Lichtig Enter a beautifully perplexing world March 14, 2007 Telegraph (UK)
- ↑ Tomas Ryal's life story at the Encyclopedia Labyrinthus
- ↑ The Literary Tourist Interviews Sam Taylor
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