Novel may concern sorcery (10)

I believe the answer is:

necromancy

'sorcery' is the definition.
(I know that sorcery can be written as necromancy)

'novel may concern' is the wordplay.
'novel' indicates an anagram (letters in a new or novel order).
'may'+'concern'='mayconcern'
'mayconcern' anagrammed gives 'NECROMANCY'.

(Another definition for necromancy that I've seen is " magic".)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.

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