Novelish

Yet he managed to throw over the most unlikely material a novelish or at least a romantic character, which is sometimes — nay, very often — utterly wanting in professed and admitted masters of the business[…]

Two such books dawned in me when I first saw our post-encephalitic patients: Compulsion and Constraint (a study of subcortical disorders and mechanisms) and People of the Abyss (a novelish, Jack Londonish book).