Though his ending is a little rushed, though his humor is occasionally forced, he has written a charming and sprightly novel.

The result is a "charming first novel," our reviewer, Scott Veale, said last year.

This brings us to his horribly titled but altogether charming new novel, "The Body of Jonah Boyd."

Brian, the narrator of Cowie's charming first novel, has the ultimate male-slacker-fantasy occupations.

This charming first novel, set in early 20th-century Egypt, begins with an assassination attempt that misfires.

A sort of juvenile one-off here, spellingwise, is Daisy Ashford's charming novel, written when she was only nine.

In Carol Shields's intriguing and often charming new novel, "Swann," there appears a poem that has proved "a puzzle to scholars."

This combination of fact and fancy blends seamlessly to make an especially stirring and charming novel.

It is, rather, a charming, old-fashioned novel of life in a remote section of the Scottish Highlands right after World War II.

This is not an antireligious tract; it is a terrifically charming, romantic novel, with plenty of jokes for 12s and over.