An excellent, ambitious book, there is no doubt that Fiction and Narrative Narrative will make many of us think a little harder about these two pesky categories. * Anna Christina Ribeiro, The Philosophical Quarterly * ... philosophising about fiction will take a huge jolt from Matravers' book. It challenges some fundamental assumptions and is rich in careful, probing argument. No one in the field can afford to ignore it. It is original, hard-hitting and will awaken many of us from our dogmatic slumber. * Peter Lamarque, Mind * This book is a total game changer for anyone interested in the philosophy of fiction, aesthetics, and narrative ... a natural next step in the genealogy of our explanations about our engagement with fiction as well as an excellent theoretical framework for making sense of fiction, nonfiction, and understanding narrative ... Although Walton, Currie, and Lamarque and Olsen have commented on their critics for the past 25 years, I believe that Matravers has posed the most significant challenge to the āconsensus viewā since Walton's Mimesis as Make-Believe * Sarah Worth, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism * Fiction and Narrative is a concise work that consists of short chapters tightly packed with arguments; yet, it manages to do a lot. In addition to providing an intriguing theoretical reorientation, the book has substantial value in clarifying (and questioning) recent debates around fiction * Jukka Mikkonen, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *