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Articles by subject: novel

Book review: The Secrets of Pain by Phil Rickman (by Natalie Haynes, November/December 2011 )
Natalie Haynes endures a painful crime novel
Book review: The Godless Boys by Naomi Wood (by Philip Womack, May/June 2011 )
Philip Womack is uninspired by a dystopian debut
Book review: Ours Are The Streets by Sunjeev Sahota (by Jake Wallis Simons, March/April 2011 )
Jake Wallis Simons isn't blown away by a debut novelist's take on homegrown radicalism
Diary: The Novel is dead! Huzzah! (by Martin Rowson, May/June 2010 )
Everyone has a novel in them, like a fart or a tumour, says Martin Rowson
The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre (by Francis Beckett, March/April 2010 )
Francis Beckett on a bleak timely novel about those charged with covering up Catholic child abuse
Dark Matter by Juli Zeh (by Stuart Sim, March/April 2010 )
Stuart Sim enjoys a metaphysical thriller
Makers by Cory Doctorow (by Bill Thompson, September/October 2009 )
Bill Thompson enjoys a sci-fi writer growing up
This is How by MJ Hyland (by Philip Womack, September/October 2009 )
Philip Womack on the terse sophistication of novelist MJ Hyland
The Fall of the Imam by Nawal El Saadawi (by Philip Womack, July/August 2009 )
Philip Womack praises a formidable Egyptian novel
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (by Philip Womack, May/June 2009 )
Philip Womack is blown away by Hilary Mantel's historical epic
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (by Philip Womack, March/April 2009 )
Philip Womack grapples with a controversial epic
Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie (by Philip Womack, January/February 2009 )
Philip Womack barely survives the tedium of a new Chinese novel
Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad (by Philip Womack, November/December 2008 )
Philip Womack finds redemption in a Norwegian classic
The Turnaround by George Pelecanos (by Stuart Sim, November/December 2008 )
Stuart Sim visits George Pelecanos's mean streets
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd (by Philip Womack, September/October 2008 )
Philip Womack wonders why Peter Ackroyd has meddled with a classic
A Good & Happy Child by Justin Evans (by Philip Womack, July/August 2008 )
Philip Womack is absolutely terrified by a spooky debut novel
Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy (by Jonathan Derbyshire, May/June 2008 )
Jonathan Derbyshire admires a dystopian classic
The Sun and Moon Corrupted by Philip Ball (by Philip Womack, May/June 2008 )
Philip Womack enjoys a popular scientist's debut novel
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie (by Shirley Dent, March/April 2008 )
Shirley Dent believes Rushdie is the ultimate humanist storyteller
Something To Tell You by Hanif Kureishi (by Philip Womack, March/April 2008 )
Philip Womack has something to tell you about Hanif Kureishi's latest
African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou (by Natalie Haynes, January/February 2008 )
Natalie Haynes is unimpressed by an African murder mystery
Book review: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (by Daniel Miller, Web Exclusive, March 2009)
Bolaño's extraordinary epic lives up to the hype, says Daniel Miller
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