Meyer has gained a following among young adult readers of her Twilight novels, which are set in the small town of Forks on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state.

His son is now in his mid twenties and is an enthusiastic reader of his father's novels.

In a way that readers of Winterson's adult novels might recognize, chance comes along with a rebalancing act.

A reader of Beckett's novels, Cy has adopted a Malone-like style, including comments on his own handwriting.

Cy himself is a reader of Samuel Beckett's novels.

Could even a savvy reader of women's novels tell whether it was Ms. Goudge or Ms. Steel who wrote the following sentence?

But the reader of her best novels is not likely to worry about that.

The fact that it has some kind of playful relationship with Birmingham is something with which readers of my novels can easily cope.

Indeed, as a young man he studied art in England, and, as readers of his novels will know, his prose constantly aspires to, and frequently achieves, the condition of painting.

It is giving nothing away to readers of Sarah Waters's previous novels, "Tipping the Velvet" and "Affinity," to reveal that the intimacy becomes sexual.