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December

Friday, 11th: Red in the Morning, by Dornford Yates
Thursday, 10th: The Sicilian, or Love the Painter, by Molière (tr. by John Wood)
Tuesday, 8th: The Misanthrope, by Molière (tr. by John Wood)
Monday, 7th: Children of Dune, by Frank Herbert
Thursday, 3rd: To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf

November

Friday, 27th: Hornblower in the West Indies, by C.S. Forester
Thursday, 26th: The Subtle Serpent, by Peter Tremayne
Friday, 20th: The Comedians, by Graham Greene
Thursday, 19th: A Piece of Justice, by Jill Paton Walsh
Wednesday, 18th: Religio Medici, by Thomas Browne
Tuesday, 17th: Royal Assassin, by Robin Hobb
Monday, 16th: Grey Lensman, by E.E. "Doc" Smith
Tuesday, 10th::::Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music, by Simon Frith
Friday, 13th: Intervention, by Julian May
Tuesday, 10th::::The Buddha of Brewer Street, by Michael Dobbs
Wednesday, 11th: Oxford Mourning, by Veronica Stallwood
Tuesday, 10th::::Scales of Justice, by Ngaio Marsh
Tuesday, 10th: Dune Messiah, by Frank Herbert
Monday, 9th: Set in a Silver Sea, by Arthur Bryant
Friday, 6th: The Crediton Killings, by Michael Jecks
Thursday, 5th: The Mockery Bird, by Gerald Durrell
Tuesday, 10th::::Don Juan, by Molière (tr. by John Wood)
Wednesday, 4th: Hornblower and the Crisis, by C.S. Forester
Tuesday, 3rd: L'amour Médecin, by Molière (tr. as Love's The Best Doctor by John Wood)
Tuesday, 10th::::The Miser, by Molière (tr. by John Wood)
Monday, 2nd: Within A Budding Grove, by Marcel Proust (tr. by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin)

October

Friday, 30th: Les Fourberies de Scapin, by Molière (tr. as That Scoundrel Scapin by John Wood)
Tuesday, 10th::::The Cruellest Month, by Hazel Holt
Thursday, 29th: Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler
Wednesday, 28th: Her Majesty's Wizard, by Christopher Stasheff
Tuesday, 10th::::Dreams of a Final Theory, by Steven Weinberg
Tuesday, 27th: Three Hands in the Fountain, by Lindsey Davis
Tuesday, 10th::::Travels With My Aunt, by Graham Greene
Tuesday, 10th::::Spinsters in Jeopardy, by Ngaio Marsh
Friday, 23rd: The Jagged Orbit, by John Brunner
Tuesday, 10th::::Fruits of the Earth, by André Gide
Tuesday, 10th::::New Fruits of the Earth, by André Gide
Thursday, 22nd: An Actor and His Time, by John Gielgud
Tuesday, 10th::::Anna Karenin, by Leo Tolstoy (tr. by Rosemary Edmonds)
Tuesday, 10th::::The Adversary, by Julian May
Friday, 16th: Fire Below, by Dornford Yates
Thursday, 15th: Death and Deconstruction, by Anne Fleming
Tuesday, 10th::::Flying Colours, by C.S. Forester
Tuesday, 10th::::A Touch of Mortality
Wednesday, 14th: The Would-Be Gentleman, by Molière (tr. by John Wood)
Tuesday, 13th: The Black Album, by Hanif Kureishi
Monday, 12th: Mask of Treason, by Anne Stevenson
Tuesday, 10th::::Opening Night, by Ngaio Marsh
Friday, 9th: Ghostly Murders, by P.C. Doherty
Thursday, 8th: When the Music Stops, by Norman Lebrecht
Wednesday, 7th: The Dragon in the Sea, by Frank Herbert
Tuesday, 6th: Phantastes, by George MacDonald
Tuesday, 10th::::Huis Clos, by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated as In Camera by Stuart Gilbert
Monday, 5th: The Queen and the Rebels by Ugo Betti, translated by Henry Reed
Friday, 2nd: L'invitation au Chateau by Jean Anouilh, translated as Ring Around the Moon by Christopher Fry
Thursday, 1st: England in the Twentieth Century, by David Thomson

September

Wednesday, 30th: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
Tuesday, 10th::::The Return of Raffles, by Peter Tremayne
Tuesday, 29th: The Betrothed, by Alessandro Manzoni (tr. by Bruce Penman)
Tuesday, 10th::::The Non-Born King, by Julian May
Monday, 28th: No Bed for Bacon, by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon
Friday, 25th: Galactic Patrol, by E.E. "Doc" Smith
Thursday, 24th: The Looking Glass War, by John le Carre
Wednesday, 23rd: Polgara the Sorceress, by David & Leigh Eddings
Tuesday, 22nd: To Sail Beyond the Sunset, by Robert Heinlein
Monday, 21st: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, by John Ford
Tuesday, 15th: The Broken Heart, by John Ford
Tuesday, 10th::::The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster

August

Friday, 28th: The White Devil, by John Webster
Wednesday, 26th: England in the Eighteenth Century, by J.F.Plumb
Tuesday, 10th::::The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
Tuesday, 25th: A Moorland Hanging, by Michael Jecks
Monday, 24th: The Butterfly's Evil Spell, by Frederico Garcia Lorca (tr. by Gwynne Edwards)
Tuesday, 10th::::The Love of Don Perlimpín, by Frederico Garcia Lorca (tr. by Gwynne Edwards)
Tuesday, 10th::::The Puppet Play of Don Cristóbal, by Frederico Garcia Lorca (tr. by Gwynne Edwards)
Tuesday, 10th::::The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife, by Frederico Garcia Lorca (tr. by Gwynne Edwards)
Tuesday, 10th::::When Five Years Pass, by Frederico Garcia Lorca (tr. by Gwynne Edwards)
Friday, 21st: Swing, Brother, Swing, by Ngaio Marsh
Thursday, 20th: Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust (tr. by C.K. Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin)
Tuesday, 18th: Store, by Alexander Fullerton
Tuesday, 10th::::Grave Witness, by Peter Levi
Monday, 17th: Final Curtain, by Ngaio Marsh
Thursday, 12th: Fermat's Last Theorem, by Amir D. Aczel
Wednesday, 11th: Lieutenant Hornblower, by C.S. Forester
Monday, 10th: First Lensman, by E.E. "Doc" Smith
Friday, 7th: The Golden Torc, by Julian May
Thursday, 6th: Friday, by Robert Heinlein
Wednesday, 5th: The Lovegirl and the Innocent, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (t. by Nicholas Bethell and David Bury)
Tuesday, 10th::::England in the Seventeenth Century, by Maurice Ashley
Monday, 3rd: The Last Chronicle of Barset, by Anthony Trollope

July

Friday, 31st: There Came Both Mist and Snow, by Michael Innes
Thursday, 30th: Piers Plowman, by William Langland (tr. J.F. Goodridge)
Wednesday, 29th: The House of Crows, by Paul Harding
Tuesday, 28th: Died in the Wool, by Ngaio Marsh
Monday, 27th: The Buddha of Suburbia, by Hanif Kureishi
Friday, 17th: Colonel Sun, by Robert Markham
Thursday, 16th: Twenty Years On, by Alexandre Dumas
Tuesday, 10th::::Triplanetary, by E.E. "Doc" Smith
Wednesday, 15th: Candle in the Wind, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (tr. Keith Armes)
Monday, 13th: The Tailor of Panama, by John le Carre
Thursday, 9th: Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture, by Peter Green
Wednesday, 8th: Space Family Stone, by Robert Heinlein
Tuesday, 10th::::Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
Tuesday, 7th: Colour Scheme, by Ngaio Marsh
Tuesday, 10th::::A Ship of the Line, by C.S. Forester
Wednesday, 1st: The Devil's Hunt, by P.C. Doherty
Tuesday, 10th::::Last Act in Palmyra, by Lindsey Davis

June

Tuesday, 30th: England in the Late Middle Ages, by A.R. Myers
Tuesday, 10th::::The Many Coloured Land, by Julian May
Friday, 26th: Arthor, by A.A. Attanasio
Tuesday, 10th::::Transcendental Number Theory, by Alan Baker
Thursday, 25th: The Aesthetics of Music, by Roger Scruton
Wednesday, 24th: Assassin's Apprentice, by Robin Hobb
Tuesday, 23rd: Death and the Dancing Footman, by Ngaio Marsh
Monday, 22nd: Lenin in Zurich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (tr. H.T. Willetts)
Friday, 19th: Busman's Honeymoon, by Dorothy Sayers
Thursday, 18th: Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
Tuesday, 16th: Martin Conisby's Revenge, by Jeffrey Farnol
Monday, 15th: The Course of Honour, by Lindsey Davis
Friday, 12th: The Small House at Allington, by Anthony Trollope
Thursday, 11th: The Masked Man, by P.C. Doherty
Wednesday, 10th: Time Enough for Love, by Robert Heinlein
Tuesday, 9th: 'Subtle is the Lord...', by Abraham Pais
Friday, 5th: The Way of Wyrd, by Brian Bates
Thursday, 4th: You Never Can Tell, by George Bernard Shaw
Tuesday, 10th::::The Man of Destiny, by George Bernard Shaw
Tuesday, 10th::::Candida, by George Bernard Shaw
Tuesday, 10th::::Arms and the Man, by George Bernard Shaw
Wednesday, 3rd: A Word Before Dying, by Ann Grainger
Tuesday, 10th::::A Surfeit of Lampreys, by Nagio Marsh
Monday, 1st: Hamlet, Revenge!, by Michael Innes
Tuesday, 10th::::An Introduction to Musical History, by Jack Westrup

May

Friday, 29th: English Society in the Early Middle Ages (1066-1307), by Doris Mary Stenton
Thursday, 28th: Earthfall, by Orson Scott Card
Wednesday, 27th: Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
Tuesday, 26th: The Aspern Papers, by Henry James
Friday, 22nd: Overture to Death, by Ngaio Marsh
Wednesday, 20th: The Musical Mind, by John A. Sloboda
Tuesday, 19th: Home of the Gentry, by Ivan Turgenev (tr. Richard Freeborn)
Tuesday, 10th::::Gaudy Night, by Dorothy Sayers
Thursday, 14th: Year of the Golden Ape, by Colin Forbes
Tuesday, 10th::::Deeds of the Disturber, by Elizabeth Peters
Tuesday, 12th: Black Bartlemy's Treasure, by Jeffrey Farnol
Tuesday, 10th::::Let There be Blood, by Jane Jakeman
Monday, 11th: The Poetics of Music, by Igor Stravinsky (tr. Arthur Knodel and Ingolf Dahl)
Friday, 8th: Farnham's Freehold, by Robert Heinlein
Tuesday, 10th::::Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw
Thursday, 7th: The Early Churchills, by A.L. Rowse
Friday, 1st: The Speaker of Mandarin, by Ruth Rendell

April

Thursday, 30th: Death at the Bar, by Ngaio Marsh
Wednesday, 29th: The Stone Leopard, by Colin Forbes
Tuesday, 28th: The Master Builder, by Henrik Ibsen (tr. Michael Meyer)
Monday, 27th: The Wild Duck, by Henrik Ibsen (tr. Michael Meyer)
Friday, 24th: Ghosts, by Henrik Ibsen (tr. Michael Meyer)
Tuesday, 10th::::Divine Inspiration, by Jane Langton
Thursday, 23rd: Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett
Tuesday, 10th::::Persuasion, by Jane Austen
Tuesday, 10th::::Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play, by Ben Watson
Wednesday, 22nd: The Masterharper of Pern, by Anne McCafferey
Tuesday, 10th::::The Poison Belt, by Arthur Conan Doyle
Tuesday, 21st: Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
Tuesday, 10th::::The Dragon and the Unicorn, by A.A. Attanasio
Tuesday, 10th::::Daylight on Saturday, by J.B. Priestley
Tuesday, 10th::::Saint Joan, by George Bernard Shaw
Tuesday, 7th: Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman, by Richard P. Feynman
Monday, 6th: The Stuarts, by J. P. Kenyon
Tuesday, 10th::::The Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle
Friday, 3rd: The Pretenders, by Henrik Ibsen (tr. Michael Meyer)
Thursday, 2nd: Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen (tr. Michael Meyer)
Tuesday, 10th::::Death in a White Tie, by Ngaio Marsh
Wednesday, 1st: The Case of the Late Pig, by Margery Allingham

March

Tuesday, 31st: Cligés, by Chrétien de Troyes (tr. W.W. Comfort)
Tuesday, 10th::::Erec et Enide, by Chrétien de Troyes (tr. W.W. Comfort)
Tuesday, 10th::::Lancelot, by Chrétien de Troyes (tr. W.W. Comfort)
Tuesday, 10th::::Yvain, by Chrétien de Troyes (tr. W.W. Comfort)
Friday, 27th: The Saint Abroad, by Leslie Charteris
Tuesday, 24th: I Will Fear No Evil, by Robert Heinlein
Thursday, 19th: Artists in Crime, by Ngaio Marsh
Tuesday, 17th: Sir Nigel, by Arthur Conan Doyle
Monday, 16th: Silence Observed, by Michael Innes
Tuesday, 10th::::Is God Helpless?, by Peter Cotterell
Thursday, 12th: Behold, Here's Poison, by Georgette Heyer
Tuesday, 10th::::Les Mouches, by Jean-Paul Sartre (tr. as The Flies by Stuart Gilbert)
Wednesday, 11th: Morts sans sépulture, by Jean-Paul Sartre (tr. as Men Without Shadows by Kitty Black)
Tuesday, 10th: Les Séquestrés d'Altona, by Jean-Paul Sartre (tr. as Altona by Sylvia & George Leeson)
Tuesday, 10th::::Vintage Murder, by Ngaio Marsh
Monday, 9th: The Tudors, by Christopher Morris
Friday, 6th: Guards, Guards, by Terry Pratchett
Wednesday, 4th: Emperor and Galilean, by Henrik Ibsen (tr. Michael Meyer)
Tuesday, 3rd: Brand, by Henrik Ibsen (tr. Michael Meyer)

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