Set in the stifling atmosphere of a 1950s Surrey village, Lewis Aldridge is the outcast of her debut's title, a damaged 19-year-old returning from prison and struggling to deal with his mother's drowning, his father's judgements, and his own deepening alcoholism and self-injury.
Lucy Prebble's "The Effect" asks both playfully and pointedly, "what's the difference between an emotion we feel organically and one that can be produced chemically?" Set in the clinical atmosphere of a new drug trial and focused on two of the participants, the structure feels very deliberate and focused.
Radioland Murders is set in the 1939 atmosphere of old-time radio and pays homage to the screwball comedy films of the 1930s.
Vyleta's second novel is a riff on Hitchcock's "Rear Window" set in the charged atmosphere of Vienna, 1939.
And though Off Course is set in the 1980s, the atmosphere of disconnection has a modern resonance.
"THE crisis, decline and even bankruptcy of Huawei are to come.We are in spring, but winter is very close.Don't forget that the Titanic set sail in the atmosphere of hurrah".
Mariella Frostrup Presenter and broadcaster I am currently immersed in Ian Buruma's debut novel The China Lover (Atlantic), set in the tantalising exotic atmosphere of Japanese-occupied Manchuria in the first part of the 20th century.
It's a police thriller, set in the racially charged atmosphere of South Central Los Angeles just before the Rodney King beating, where a cynical veteran cop (Kurt Russell) instructs his green partner (Scott Speedman) in the ways of the street as they investigate a quadruple homicide.
Chekhov, in his short story Lady with the Lapdog, set in the resort of Yalta, captures the atmosphere of boredom and frustration of the leisured provincial classes on holiday in Yalta.
The most popular allegorical reading in our own day suggests that, although the action is set in Soho, the atmosphere is really that of Edinburgh, capital of Scotland and RLS's birthplace.
