| AUDIOBOOK | Spoken version of a novel |
| DRAFT | First version of a novel say |
| SOFTCOPY | "E-" version of a novel (2 words) |
| ADAPTATION | Film version of a novel (10) |
| ONDAATJE | Author of a novel centred around the lives of a nurse, a sapper, a thief and eponymous "English" patient (8) |
| EPISTOLARY | (Of a novel) constructed in the form of a series of letters (10) |
| TWIST | Curl of lemon zest as a cocktail garnish; or, a sudden change in the plot of a novel or film (5) |
| CONTENTS | The list or table of chapters or sections given at the front of a novel, periodical or other publication; or, as a mass noun, the material dealt with in such a work (8) |
| AMSTERDAM | The capital of the Netherlands; title of a novel by Ian McEwan; or, with "Old", a brand of mature Gouda (9) |
| PET | ___ Sematary adapted horror film of 1989 of a novel of the same name by Stephen King |
| ACCIDENT | 1967 Joseph Losey film adaptation of a novel of the same name by Nicholas Mosley with a screenplay by Harold Pinter |
| STORY | Plot of a novel, film or play; a news article; or, a fairy tale (5) |
| TRILBY | The heroine of a novel of the same name by George du Maurier lives on as what style of hat? (6) |
| ADAPTION | A turning of a novel or other literary work into a TV or radio programme, play or film (8) |
| DAVIDBOWIE | Rock legend who hoaxed the art world in 1998 by promoting Nat Tate, a nonexistent painter and the subject of a novel presented as a full-length biography |
| CHAPTER | Part of a novel assembly of clerics (7) |
| AHAB | Mariner in a whale of a novel? |
| BODICE | A ripper of a novel! (6) |
| THANKYOU | ___, Jeeves!, title of a novel by P. G. Wodehouse; or, a 1936 film starring Arthur Treacher and David Niven (5,3) |
| CHOIR | The -; title of a novel by Joanna Trollope; or, a television series presented by Gareth Malone (5) |