Across
Despondent about you in France, stuck with tariff and unable to take any more (9)
Call round (5)
Sang loudly with band, due to being drunk (6,3)
Type of writing of period seen regularly (5)
Note my oddly original word (6)
To want not a cent? Weird this is in both the US and Canada (4,4)
Top pieces of literature in bookcases, recording and retelling yarns (7)
Habitat of Tasmanian devil, evolving with limited parts lost (7)
Capital writer, initially keen to meet aristocrat, loses head and gets kiss after a month (4,4)
Potentially constituent narrative ultimately lost for reader (6)
Old penny dreadful seen as impenetrable (5)
One has bras etc in drawer! (4,5)
Stir up novel so it ends in twist (5)
Cutlet of muscle core, chopped thin, zebra's head and veal, even (9)
Down
Genius of story books (6)
One who buys key American book by King (8)
Study follows paperback's plot (6)
Continuations of story speak of search for sources of water (7)
Book about gravity's reach in translation (6)
'Mystery novel' in quotes (8)
Vegetable in book? Radish? (4)
She jointly made Columbus sail and able to roam (8)
Learn from a book: note, a hardback (4)
Stories in books (8)
Passage from a booklet (7)
Opposed to opening, dropping, opening, dropping? (6)
Old story offers a clue to boot (6)
Epistolary novel: badly written letters in yarns? I opt out (this was pre-GCSE) (1,5)
Type letters or click words in the clue