Full Description
This is a guide to popular modern fiction divided into writing genres, such as historical novels, macabre stories and science fiction. Each author entry within these novel types gives a brief history, outlines the writer's style and lists all the relevant published titles.
Contents
Adventure stories; country life; detective stories; family stories; fantasies; foreign locations; glitz; Gothic romances; historical novels; horror stories; humorous novels; "perceptive" women's novels; police work; the saga; science fiction; sea stories; spy stories; thrillers; war stories; woemn detectives; literary prizes and awards.
