Converse of object

• bestsel: Veteran Hollywood screenwriter Robin Swicord does a superb job of adapting Arthur Golden's bestselling novel to the big screen.

• write: What do you enjoy most, writing novels or teaching creative writing?

• publish: She has had six adult novels and seven teenage novels published.

• read: The Jane Austen Book club features a reading group who only read novels by Jane Austen.

Adjective modifier

• graphic: Note that large/heavy books may have P&P of £ 3 or more. graphic novels: try for £ 5-7 total.

• best-selling: Synopsis Sarah Harrison became a household name in the 1980s with her internationally best-selling novels.

• acclaimed: Debbie Taylor's acclaimed novel The Fourth Queen was published last year; she also edits the writing magazine Mslexia.

• autobiographical: Evil is based on a 1981 autobiographical novel by acclaimed Swedish author Jan Guillou.

• historical: Based on the historical novel by Philippa Gregory, the film will chart the Boleyn family's struggle for power via their daughters.

• classic: Among her own experiences she slips extracts from classic novels which illuminate the dilemma further.

Modifies a noun

• therapeutics: Work in Respiratory genetics is leading to the development of improved diagnostics and novel therapeutics.

• gene: A novel tumor suppressor gene implicated in colorectal cancer progression has also been identified by this group.

• approach: This was solved with a rather novel approach by Dunstan Orchard.

• inhibitor: Exploitation of this technology is even more attractive given the availability of screens to identify novel inhibitors.

Noun used with modifier

• debut: You released your incredible debut novel Trumpet at the end of the 90s.

• detective: A detective novel, really, with a fair amount of careful detail.

• fantasy: I enjoy reading science fiction and fantasy novels and playing ( old-fashioned?

• suspense: The Levanter, Eric Ambler's 1972 suspense novel, is topical again, given the recent strife in the Middle East.

• fiction: I wrote four teenage fiction novels before I wrote Divine Endurance which was my first adult SF novel.

• horror: D: Eric Till ( 1970 ) 21:00 The Shining Stanley Kubrick's terrifying take on Stephen King's popular horror novel.