Example sentences of "novel set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Private eye novel set in late Thirties Berlin . |
| 2 | A hallucinogenic novel set in a red light district halfway between New Orleans and hell |
| 3 | A violent , harrowing but oddly tender adaptation of Hubert Selby 's famous novel set in a harsh , poverty-stricken Brooklyn opens as a strike at a local factory explodes into confrontation . |
| 4 | The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst is a beautifully written , homoerotic novel set in the pre-AIDS gay male sub-culture of London in the early 1980s . |
| 5 | Elsbeth Lindner , rebuilding Weidenfeld 's fiction list , has bought a first novel set in Civil War England and Puritan America which she hesitates , she says , to bill as ‘ a prequel to The Scarlet Letter ’ because it is ‘ very much a novel in its own right ’ . |
| 6 | A house for Mr Biswas is an engaging comic novel set in Trinidad about a poor man who marries into a large extended family from whom he struggles to escape . |
| 7 | Despite their rousing calls for a cinema that was ‘ vital , illuminating , ’ and their polemic against a national cinema divorced from contemporary realities , they turned to a series of novels set in the English provinces for material out or which to make their first movies . |
| 8 | Horacio Bento Gouveia 's writings include romantic novels set in Madeira and , although he died a few years ago now , he remains the best known of Madeiran writers . |
| 9 | ‘ City Limits ’ features a series of modern novels set in cities by a selection of writers including Jeanette Winterson , Philip Kerr and Mordecai Richler . |
| 10 | 3 No novels set in abattoirs . |
| 11 | 4 There is to be a twenty-year ban on novels set in Oxford or Cambridge , and a ten-year ban on other university fiction . |
| 12 | No ban on novels set in primary schools ; a ten-year ban on secondary-school fiction . |
| 13 | Novels set in the Arctic and the Antarctic will receive a development grant . |
| 14 | Her three novels set in late seventeenth-century England , with James Scott , Duke of Monmouth [ q.v. ] , |