Should any of Mr. Child's devotees order the wrong novel by mistake, they'll still get a book about a sharp-eyed, solitary troublemaker.
"Personally I love hearing about toxic families – especially if they've been pretending that everything is great on the outside," admits Paula Daly, whose latest novel The Mistake I Made sees her heroine pay a terrible price to secure her family's future.
It became clear to me I'd written a crime novel by mistake (Group laughter).
Ambitious but uneven, "Kai Po Che" (based on Chetan Bhagat's novel "The Three Mistakes of My Life") mixes, not quite successfully, traditional Bollywood storytelling with something less conventional.
Based on his novel "The 3 Mistakes of My Life," the film is a coming-of-age story about a group of three middle-class young Hindu men and a poor Muslim prodigy in Ahmedabad that unfolds from 2000 to 2002.
Snow Falling on Cedars Scott Hicks's stunningly beautiful film, based on David Guterson's novel, makes the mistake of retaining the book's intricate flashbacks, which proves disruptive.
Mosley returned to the Fortlow character in the stories of Walkin' the Dog (1999) and in the novel The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow (2008).
In my first paper-thin reading of the novel I had mistaken Spark's amusing style for a lightness of subject matter, and had completely forgotten that anyone actually dies in the book.
Reviews and comments about Calloway's novel (nearly all mistake the narrator for her) are horrendous, and usually start by noting her exploitation of herself by deliberately turning on everyone with such a "jailbait" photo as the cover.
Anchor Books collected Barth's first two novels in a single-volume edition in 1988; in his foreword to it Barth stated he originally titled the book What To Do Until the Doctor Comes, but Doubleday editor Edward Aswell persuaded him to change it, as he "feared the novel would be mistaken for a treatise on first aid".
