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Intellectual property
adjective Referring to that which is new and/or original—i.e., the invention must never have been made in public in any way, anywhere, before the date on which the application for a patent is filed.

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noun Fictional prose of book length, the storyline of which has some degree of realism.

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He produces literary novels that typically alternate with the Zen mysteries.

Fatalism and legal chaos in Sicily

David Foster Wallace's "The Pale King," the year's most awaited and complicated literary novel, has renewed a very old debate.

Wallace novel renews debate about posthumous books

Set in the 1960s, as the young nation of Israel inches toward the Six-Day War with Egypt and Syria, this adaptation of David Grossman's interior monologue-laden literary novel nabbed the feature kudo at the Jerusalem fest.

Intimate Grammar

Visitors will be able to discover the author's creative process from Skellig, his first young adult literary novel published in 1998, through to Jackdaw Summer, published in 2008.

North author honoured with show

Winegardner's true genius is that The Godfather's Revenge is a literary novel masquerading as a thriller.

The Godfather's Revenge

PD James also says she loves the discipline and structure of the crime novel and pooh-poohs snobbish jibes from champions of the "so-called literary novel" which "too often seems removed from the day-to-day concerns of ordinary people."

Lady who loves a mystery

A black woman daring to bring to the big screen a literary novel by a black woman is still rare enough to count as history.

Power and poetry

This is a literary novel in style, and is finely written.

The heaven of mercury

`It's too early in the process to discuss, but it will be a literary novel.'

Memoir helps Portlander address troubled past

Bom Boy is an intricately structured literary novel that powerfully evokes family as a source of loss and struggle, but also of hope.

Bom Boy

But all those reasons to be cheerful are set against a backdrop of real anxiety about the future of the literary novel. Writers from Will Self to Howard Jacobson, from Robert Harris to Claire Messud, have raised the alarm about declining attention spans, and the time that people previously spent reading now losing out to competition from digital media.

Why serious literary fiction like Ishiguro's is vital in times like these

The result is a compelling literary novel based on a powerful figure but filled with an addictive exploration of romance, tragedy, and heartache.