1.   She read the novel from beginning to end.

2.   I read his novel in manuscript.

3.   Before I agree to read the novel, could you at least synopsize its plot?.

4.   And this had happened because I had read a novel about a mythical man called George F. Babbitt.

5.   There is no chance of a quiet evening slumped before the telly, or even to read a novel.

6.   This will vary greatly between someone reading a novel on a train and someone reading it as part of the study for a PhD thesis.

7.   As I left the next shift was settling in for the day, writing up diaries, reading novels and brewing up endless cups of tea.

8.   At the time, Marc Sferrazza was the only one who had read the novel, although Patrick Fahey has recently finished it.

9.   BBC radio can sometimes be raised on the short wave, card games can be played, long novels read and watches talked away.

10.   But figuring out the mystery is never the main point, or the main pleasure, of reading a novel by Ruth Rendell.