Top 10 books in which things end badly

The novelist Richard Gwyn explains how he came up with his list of "books in which things end badly" for the Guardian:"I had already selected this topic for the column when I discovered that an earlier contributor, Elise Valmorbida, had chosen as her subject 10 books with a happy ending. She saw this as a challenge, and it is easy to see why: the unhappy ending is such a profoundly embedded