His characters behave in 1960 as if members of a very conventional mid-19th-century novel.

During the 1950s he produced a series of non-genre, relatively conventional novels.

It's hard to imagine that West could ever have written a conventional novel with any success.

And what exactly is this hated creature, the "conventional" or "standard" novel?

Initially writing a number of science fiction books, he later concentrated on conventional novels.

"It's not a conventional commercial novel that everyone can read in three hours," he said.

To pretend that it is in any way a conventional novel would be a mistake.

Goyen offers absolutely nothing here for readers of conventional novels to grasp on to.

The nearest to a conventional novel by this author.

This series turns the popular, conventional spy-genre novel on its head.