Sentence examples for sweet novel from inspiring English sources

This blunt but sweet novel about teenagers with cancer is also a love story.

Steve Amick's sweet novel "Nothing but a Smile" understands this dictum well — maybe too well.

Flanked by two bright reading lamps, I was quietly absorbing a rather too sweet novel sent by a book club that I belong to when the telephone rang.

Her sweet novel about an eight-year-old fantasist called Ivy, is published in the UK by Myriad and has yet to find a US publisher - but her longlisting for Edinburgh's first book award may change that.

In 1942, Ms. Rostenberg, following clues sprinkled in Alcott's correspondence and other writings, found evidence that Alcott (1832-88), best known for sweet novels like "Little Women," had also written racy potboilers.

Filipacchi works with clear themes, but her sure comic touch steers clear of didacticism; smart and sweet, the novel becomes a tribute to the pleasures of friendship.

In 1878, a year after he created the phonograph, US inventor Thomas Edison noted that the cylinder could be rotated backwards to pleasing effect: "the song is still melodious in many cases, and some of the strains are sweet and novel, but altogether different from the song reproduced in the right way".

In 1878, Edison noted that, when played backwards, "the song is still melodious in many cases, and some of the strains are sweet and novel, but altogether different from the song reproduced in the right way".

Under the Skin Michael Faber Canongate £6.99, pp296 Buy it at a discount at BOL Michael Faber's charming chiller of a debut is a weird and lovely hybrid - one of the sweetest nastiest novels you'll ever read.

Katie Roiphe on Ian McEwan's new novel "Sweet Tooth".

The new novel, Sweet Tooth, is no exception.