(This is surprising from a novelist who's so verbose himself.)

A witty look at aging from a novelist and screenwriter ("When Harry Met Sally").

Finnegan's experience in South Africa transformed him from a novelist to a political journalist.

It was also the best-selling hardback book in the UK from a new novelist in 2012.

The last thing we want from a good novelist - and Houellebecq is one - is an ethic of sober responsibility.

Funny, barbed, winsome storytelling from a first-time novelist shaping an odd-couple romance.

Sometime in early 1998 Taubenberger received a manuscript from a novelist who had recently contacted him.

This from a novelist whose female characters have tended in the past to be, to say the least, accessory.

But coming from a novelist of Oe's immense stature, it's beyond disappointing.

From a novelist as skilled, as insightful and as original as Richard Bausch we are entitled to expect more.