In his two-star review, the Telegraph's Jake Kerridge said Inferno was Dan Brown's most ambitious novel yet - and his worst.
Joining the staggeringly-long list of lava lamps, seat coolers, deco lights, and other curious adornments, the USB hamster wheel is yet another incredibly novel way to make a spare USB port feel appreciated.
Secular, worldly, self-questioning and ironic, Israel's most contentious writer may have written his most important novel yet, a searing account of a marriage, two sons and a doomed love affair from the six-day war in 1967 to an army operation in the occupied territories in 2003.
His understanding of the agony and the ecstasy of manic depression displays a level of empathy for the illness never yet found in a novel, a function perhaps of his friendship with fellow-author David Foster Wallace, a real-life depressive who committed suicide in 2008.
Yet The Story of Lucy Gault is a novel to be fond of: you cannot help caring deeply about the characters and the simple yet awful situation it conveys so starkly.
Yet the greatest pleasures of this novel are single sentences, which evidence a fluidity and grace that is rare in contemporary fiction.
And growing up in Glasgow as a young Catholic, you could have this experience of holy communion and confirmation and being an altar boy, the sacraments and the duties of Catholicism, but yet there wasn't a novel in which that world was reflected.
Yet Hollinghurst also prosecutes Bryant in this novel: by the time we encounter him in the nineteen-eighties, he is a minor literary schemer, relentless, intrusive, and duplicitous.
But the great novel of the Arab spring has yet to be published.
Yet the characters do, and in a novel that's really the test.
Yet growing bacterial resistance to existing drugs and novel microbial threats make the urgency which drove the original development of penicillin as vital as ever.
Yet beyond the complicated dynamic of the two creative forces, the novel poses another fundamental question about artistic and literary creation.
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On these grounds, any attempt to fictionalise Adolf Hitler should be anathema, yet he is the oblique subject of Norman Mailer's latest novel, his first in a decade.
Yet by not even nodding towards these emotions, Mr Ishiguro's novel trips itself up.
It is the gentle yet penetrating lucidity of Mr Eugenides's writing that makes a slightly humdrum plot into so involving a novel.
Arsene Wenger had called it "unacceptable behavior" -- but Chelsea counterpart Jose Mourinho made a novel defense for his agent provocateur Costa, likening the soccer star to a rugby player after yet another victory over Arsenal.
You won't be reading the latest Clive Cussler novel right away, then, and 3M's lack of relevant formatting means no Kindle borrowing just yet.
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The trailer is exciting, and certainly novel, but it comes with one caveat, the tweets quoted within it are from people who have yet to see the movie.
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