"Nothing is less momentous in the world than the publication of another literary novel."

And some literary novels have sold quite well recently.

The award is for Japanese literary novels published in the last year.

"Another 20 years of boring literary novels, and the thing's dead."

You imagine it as the preserve of the poor literary novel - where words are used to shock.

It is certainly true that scientists do not exactly dominate literary novels.

Little, Brown also commissioned a television campaign, highly unusual for a literary novel.

These are both "literary" novels because they ask us to attend to the manner of their telling.

She has written nine literary novels and six collections of short fiction.

How do you turn a literary novel into a film?