From the blisteringly contemporary to the classic, the lighthearted to the weighty, here are our favourite short novels to get lost in ...

A short, sharp, firecracker of a book. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes(160 pages, Vintage, £9.99) In their all-boys school in the 60s, the arrival of Adrian made a late addition to Tony ...

The six books, for starters, skew short (three are under 300 pages; only one, Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, is over 400).

For, a year or so before “The Sun Also Rises,” he had published “In Our Time,” a collection of short pieces. The book caused about as much stir in literary circles as an incompleted ...