Spectacular Second Books

Happily surfing and I found this. The Times Online have come up with what they think are ten spectacular second novels. It includes Charled Dickens' Oliver Twist:

Published in serial form after The Pickwick Papers but, composed simultaneously to it, and then - once Pickwick was complete - at the same time as Nicholas Nickleby

Click HERE to read an extract from The Times in January 1837.

Other authors include Doris Lessing, Tracy Chevalier, Evelyn Waugh and Yann Martel. Some of the ten have links to extracts and reviews.