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A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative
Reiko Ikeo, Eri Shigematsu and Masayuki Nakao
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 43] 2024
► pp. 257–259

Titles of novels and short stories in the corpora

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The PREST corpus

Serious section

Atwood, M.
2013 [2003] Oryx and Crake. London: Virago Press.Google Scholar
Coetzee, J. M.
2010 [2009] Summertime. London: Vintage Books.Google Scholar
Crace, J.
2013 Harvest. London: Picador.Google Scholar
Donoghue, E.
2010 Room. London: Picador.Google Scholar
Enright, A.
2007 The Gathering. New York: Black Cat.Google Scholar
Galgut, D.
2010 In a Strange Room. London: Atlantic Books.Google Scholar
Hyland, M. J.
2006 Carry Me Down. Edinburgh: Canongate.Google Scholar
James, M.
2015 [2014] A Brief History of Seven Killings. London: Oneworld.Google Scholar
Levy, D.
2016 Hot Milk. London: Hamish Hamilton.Google Scholar
Mantel, H.
2012 Bring up the Bodies. London: Fourth Estate.Google Scholar
McCarthy, T.
2010 C. London: Jonathan Cape.Google Scholar
Mitchell, D.
2014 [2001] Number9Dream. London: Sceptre.Google Scholar
Moore, A.
2012 The Lighthouse. London: Salt Publishing.Google Scholar
Morrall, C.
2013 [2003] Astonishing Splashes of Colour. London: Sceptre.Google Scholar
Mukherjee, N.
2015 [2014] The Lives of Others. London: Vintage.Google Scholar
Ozeki, R.
2013 A Tale for the Time Being. Edinburgh: Canongate Books.Google Scholar
Pierre, DBC
2003 Vernon God Little. London: Faber and Faber.Google Scholar
Seiffert, R.
2002 [2001] The Dark Room. London: Vintage.Google Scholar
Self, W.
2012 Umbrella. London: Bloomsbury.Google Scholar
Smith, A.
2015 [2014] How to Be Both. London: Penguin.Google Scholar

Popular section

Ahern, C.
2008 Thanks for the Memories. London: Harper Collins.Google Scholar
Billingham, M.
2017 [2016] Die of Shame. London: Sphere.Google Scholar
Burton, J.
2014 The Miniaturist. London: Picador.Google Scholar
Filer, N.
2013 The Shock of the Fall. London: Harper Collins.Google Scholar
Green, G.
2016 Dear Dad. Sittingbourne, Kent: Yule Press.Google Scholar
Greene, M.
2013 Ostrich. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.Google Scholar
Harris, R.
2014 [2013] An Officer and a Spy. London: Arrow.Google Scholar
Healey, E.
2015 [2014] Elizabeth Is Missing. London: Penguin.Google Scholar
James, E. L.
2012 [2011] Fifty Shades of Grey. London: Arrow.Google Scholar
Kinsella, S.
2003 Can You Keep a Secret? London: Black Swan.Google Scholar
MacDonald, L.
2012 A Meeting of a Different Kind. Beauchamp: Matador.Google Scholar
MacGregor, V.
2016 The Return of Norah Wells. London: Sphere.Google Scholar
Mackay, M.
2015 [2013] How a Gunman Says Goodbye. London: Mulholland Books.Google Scholar
Mark, D.
2017 [2015] Taking Pity. London: Quercus.Google Scholar
Marwood, A.
2012 The Wicked Girls. London: Sphere.Google Scholar
May, P.
2016 Coffin Road. London: Quercus.Google Scholar
McKeon, D.
2015 [2014] All that Is Solid Melts into Air. London: Penguin.Google Scholar
Newman, P.
2016 [2015] The Vagrant. London: Harper Voyager.Google Scholar
Sherry, M.
2017 [2016] Bone Meal for Roses. London: Head of Zeus.Google Scholar
Whitney, R.
2015 The Liar’s Chair. London: Pan Books.Google Scholar

The PAST corpus

Serious section

Amis, M.
1985 [1984] Money. London: Penguin.Google Scholar
Ballard, J. G.
1984 Empire of the Sun. New York: Panther Books.Google Scholar
Barnes, J.
1989 A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. London: Picador.Google Scholar
Brookner, A.
2016 [1990] Brief Lives. London: Penguin Books.Google Scholar
Byatt, A. S.
1991 [1990] Possession. London: Vintage Books.Google Scholar
Carter, A.
1967 The Magic Toyshop. London: Heinemann.Google Scholar
Drabble, M.
1969 Jerusalem the Golden. Harmondsworth: Penguin.Google Scholar
Fowles, J.
2001 [1977] The Magus: A Revised Version. New York: Back Bay Books.Google Scholar
Gardam, J.
1992 [1991] The Queen of the Tambourine. London: Abacus.Google Scholar
Golding, W.
1980 Rites of Passage. London: Faber and Faber.Google Scholar
Greene, G.
1943 [1938] Brighton Rock. London: Penguin.Google Scholar
Huxley, A.
1928 Point Counter Point. London: Chatto & Windus.Google Scholar
Lawrence, D. H.
1955 “Tickets, Please”. In The Complete Short Stories (Vol. II), pp. 334–346. London: Heinemann.Google Scholar
Lessing, D.
1974 The Memoirs of a Survivor. London: Octagon.Google Scholar
Lowry, M.
1969 [1961] ‘Gin and Goldenrod’. In Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place, pp. 202–208. Harmondsworth: Penguin.Google Scholar
Maugham, S.
1935 [1919] The Moon and Sixpence. London: Heinemann.Google Scholar
Murdoch, I.
1961 A Severed Head. London: Chatto & Windus.Google Scholar
Rushdie, S.
1995 The Moor’s Last Sigh. London: Jonathan Cape.Google Scholar
Wells, H. G.
1953 [1909] Tono-Bungay. London: Collins.Google Scholar
Woolf, V.
1919 Night and Day. London: The Hogarth Press.Google Scholar

Popular section

Adler, E.
1986 Peach. London: Hodder and Stoughton.Google Scholar
Bow, J.
1991 Jane’s Journey. Hove, Sussex: The Book Guild Ltd.Google Scholar
Burley, W. J.
1978 Wycliffe and the Scapegoat. London: Gollancz.Google Scholar
Conran, S.
1982 Lace. Harmondsworth: Penguin.Google Scholar
Cookson, C.
1984 Hamilton. London: Heinemann.Google Scholar
Dibdin, M.
1991 Dirty Tricks. London: Faber & Faber.Google Scholar
Francis, D.
1988 The Edge. London: Michael Joseph.Google Scholar
Higgins, J.
1991 The Eagle Has Flown. London: Pan.Google Scholar
Holt, V.
1991 Daughter of Deceit. London: Harper Collins.Google Scholar
Lewis, T.
1992 Get Carter. London: Allison and Busby.Google Scholar
MacLean, A.
1986 Santorini. London: Collins.Google Scholar
Maitland, S.
1991 [1990] Three Times Table. London: Virago Press.Google Scholar
McDermid, V.
1992 Dead Beat. London: Gollancz.Google Scholar
McDowell, C.
1991 A Woman of Style. London: Random Century Group.Google Scholar
Nabb, M.
1989 Death in Springtime. London: Fontana.Google Scholar
Peters, E.
1992 The Holy Thief: The Nineteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. London: Headline.Google Scholar
Seymour, G.
1992 Archangel. London: Fontana.Google Scholar
Smith, W.
1987 The Eye of the Tiger. London: Heinemann.Google Scholar
Taylor, A.
1986 The Raven on the Water. London: Harper Collins.Google Scholar
Thomson, R.
1991 The Five Gates to Hell. London: Bloomsbury.Google Scholar