novel

• first novel

  It's his first novel for five years.

• detective novel

  They removed a detective novel by Dame Ngaio Marsh because it bore the picture of a goat on the front cover.

• second novel

  Penny Perrick (Sunday Times ) told us: ‘In Louis Begley's second novel, as in his first,Wartime Lies , the protagonist is a man convinced that his life can be made bearable only by willing away his terrible past.

• traditional novel

  The fundamental difference between the traditional novel and this the new novel is that now the style is analytical and psychological.

• novel ideas

  Creativity refers to the generation of novel ideas — innovation to making money with them.