It is a little more conventional than "Soviet Sources," but it is a good, readable novel.

What makes this a readable and revealing novel is that the author's enemy is not the Viet Cong but the nature of war itself.

I sure hope Foley brings me some readable new novels.

The structure of "Among the Ginzburgs," Ellen Pall's extremely readable novel, is a very theatrical one.

The result is a riotous, readable novel, a novel that despite its occasional lapses stands as a worthy successor to Graham Greene's most wicked entertainments.

Locus praised the book as "a highly readable first novel".

Amanda Craig enjoys a compulsively readable novel by Penelope Lively, who was honoured in the Queen's New Year List.

Indeed, what comes out of this very readable novel is a feeling that while the wars change, the soldiers remain the same.

I found this a very readable novel, but I do not think the average 8-year-old is ready for its complexity.

"An artist is on his own," grumbles Sir Edward Elgar in James Hamilton-Paterson's wonderfully readable, wonderfully insightful first novel, "Gerontius."