1.   Certainly anyone who regularly scans the fiction shelves at a bookstore can understand the temptation Morris must have felt.

2.   For his part Coelho complains more about booksellers who insist on placing his works in their New Age or self-help sections rather than on the fiction shelves.

3.   Given a chance, a dendrochronologist could knock Halvdan the Black off his timeline or even relegate him to the fiction shelf.

4.   His return to fiction shelves is much heralded by librarians and book reviewers.