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December
- Friday, 17th: Deep
Secret, by Diana Wynne Jones
- Thursday, 16th: Against
Method, by Paul Feyerabend
- Wednesday, 15th: The
Holy Terror (later retitled The Saint Versus Scotland
Yard), by Leslie Charteris
- Tuesday, 14th: A Sudden
Fearful Death, by Anne Perry
Tuesday, 10thThe Wings of the Dove, by Henry James
- Monday, 13th: The Wood
Beyond the World, by William Morris
- Friday, 10th: The
Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories, ed. by Tom Shippey
- Thursday, 9th: The
Dance of Genghis Cohn, by Romain Gary
- Wednesday, 8th: Shakespeare, by Dennis Kay
Tuesday, 10thThe Leper's Return, by Michael Jecks
- Tuesday, 7th: Archaeology and Language, by Colin
Renfrew
- Monday, 6th: The
Condition of Muzak, by Michael Moorcock
- Wednesday, 1st: Phineas
Finn, by Anthony Trollope
November
- Wednesday, 24th: The
Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe (1988)
- Tuesday, 23rd: The
Demon Archer, by Paul Doherty
- Monday, 22nd: As I Lay
Dying, by William Faulkner
- Friday, 19th: Elephants
Can Remember, by Agatha Christie
- Thursday, 18th: The
Iron Wars, by Paul Kearney
- Wednesday, 17th: First
Love, by Ivan Turgenev (tr. by Isaiah Berlin)
- Tuesday, 16th: Vendetta, by Michael Dibdin
Tuesday, 10thIcon, by Frederick Forsyth
- Monday, 15th: A Bend in
the River, by V.S. Naipaul
- Friday, 12th: Barnaby
Rudge, by Charles Dickens
- Thursday, 11th: Die For
Love, by Elizabeth Peters
Tuesday, 10thThe God of Small Things, by Arundhati
Roy
- Tuesday, 9th: She Was A
Lady, by Leslie Charteris (retitled as The Saint Meets His
Match)
- Monday, 8th: Point
Counter Point, by Aldous Huxley
Tuesday, 10thWhere Old Bones Lie, by Ann Granger
- Friday, 5th: The Well
at the World's End, by William Morris
- Wednesday, 3rd: The
Heretic Kings, by Paul Kearney
Tuesday, 10thThe Mistress of Lilliput, by Alison
Fell
- Tuesday, 2nd: Catalina's Conspiracy, by Steven
Saylor
Tuesday, 10thHawkwood's Voyage, by Paul Kearney
- Monday, 1st: The End of
Science, by John Horgan
October
- Friday, 29th: Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
Tuesday, 10thThe Nature of Theatre, by Vera Mowry
Roberts
- Thursday, 28th: The
Last Judgement, by Iain Pears
- Wednesday, 27th: The
English Assassin, by Michael Moorcock
Tuesday, 10thThe Immortal Wound, by Victor Canning
- Tuesday, 26th: The
Perilous Order, by A.A. Attanasio
Tuesday, 10thRunning With the Devil, by Robert
Walser
- Friday, 22nd: The
Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli (tr. by George Bull)
- Thursday, 21st: Closing
Time, by Joseph Heller
- Wednesday, 20th: Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy Sayers
(completed by Jill Paton Walsh)
- Tuesday, 19th: Alias
the Saint, by Leslie Charteris
Tuesday, 10thThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel
Spark
- Monday, 18th: The Devil
is an Ass, by Ben Jonson
Tuesday, 10th::::Roman Blood, by Steven Saylor
- Friday, 15th: Light
Thickens, by Ngaio Marsh
Tuesday, 10th::::The American, by George MacDonald
Fraser
- Thursday, 14th: The
Balance of Power, by Arthur Hassall
Tuesday, 10th::::Orbital Resonance, by John Barnes
- Wednesday, 13th: Past
Imperative, by Dave Duncan
- Tuesday, 12th: Go Tell
It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
- Monday, 11th: The
Anthropic Cosmological Principle, by John D. Barrow and Frank
J. Tipler
- Friday, 8th: A Cure for
Cancer, by Michael Moorcock
- Thursday, 7th: On the
Eve, by Ivan Turgenev (tr. by Gilbert Gardiner)
Tuesday, 10th::::Featuring the Saint, by Leslie
Charteris
- Wednesday, 6th: The
Circle of the Gods, by Victor Canning
Tuesday, 10th::::All the King's Men, by Robert Penn
Warren
- Tuesday, 5th: Time
Regained, by Marcel Proust (tr. by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and
Terence Kilmartin)
Tuesday, 10th::::Till Death Us Do Part, by John Dickson
Carr
- Monday, 4th: Photo
Finish, by Ngaio Marsh
Tuesday, 10th::::The Valley of Bones, by Anthony Powell
- Friday, 1st: The
Abbot's Gibbet, by Michael Jecks
Tuesday, 10th::::Flashman and the Dragon, by George
MacDonald
September
- Thursday, 30th: Shakespeare's Lives, by S. Schoenbaum
Tuesday, 10th::::Song of Stone, by Iain Banks
- Wednesday, 29th: The
Final Programme, by Michael Moorcock
Tuesday, 10th::::Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa
Cather
- Tuesday, 28th: The
Crimson Chalice, by Victor Canning
Tuesday, 10th::::Knight Templar, by Leslie Charteris
(retitled The Avenging Saint)
- Monday, 27th: Grave
Mistake, by Ngaio Marsh
Tuesday, 10th::::Sixes and Sevens, by O. Henry
- Friday, 24th: Valley of
the Shadow, by Peter Tremayne
Tuesday, 10th::::The Oathbound Wizard, by Christopher
Stasheff
- Thursday, 23rd: The
Kindly Ones, by Anthony Powell
- Wednesday, 22nd: The
Last Hero, by Leslie Charteris (retitled The Saint Closes
the Case)
Tuesday, 10th::::Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
- Tuesday, 21st: Enter
the Saint, by Leslie Charteris
- Thursday, 9th: The
Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (tr. by David
Magarshack)
- Wednesday, 8th: Flashman and the Redskins, by George
MacDonald Fraser
Tuesday, 10th::::What Remains to be Discovered, by John
Maddox
- Tuesday, 7th: The Quest
for Tanelorn, by Michael Moorcock
- Monday, 6th: Inversions, by Iain Banks
- Wednesday, 1st: Harlequin, by Morris West
August
- Friday, 27th: Resurrection, by Leo Tolstoy (tr. by
Rosemary Edmonds)
- Thursday, 26th: Last
Ditch, by Ngaio Marsh
Tuesday, 10th::::Citizen of the Galaxy, by Robert
Heinlein
- Wednesday, 25th: Asking
for Trouble, by Ann Granger
- Tuesday, 24th: The
Decisive Battles of the Western World, by J.F.C. Fuller (ed. by
John Terraine)
Tuesday, 10th::::The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul
Bellow
- Monday, 23rd: Options, by O. Henry
- Friday, 20th: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, by Anthony
Powell
- Thursday, 19th: From
Here to Infinity
- Wednesday, 18th: The
Life and Times of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Lawrence
Sterne
- Tuesday, 17th: The
Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder
- Monday, 16th: Flash for
Freedom!, by George MacDonald Fraser
- Friday, 13th: The Last
Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, by John Barth
- Thursday, 12th: Black
As He's Painted, by Ngaio Marsh
- Wednesday, 11th: The
Champion of Garathorm, by Michael Moorcock
- Tuesday, 10th: Goodbye
Chairman Mao, by Christopher New
- Monday, 9th: Albertine
Disparue, by Marcel Proust (tr. as The Fugitive by
Terence Kilmartin and C.K. Scott Moncrieff)
- Friday, 7th: A Very
Private Life, by Micharl Frayn
- Thursday, 6th: Cabbages
and Kings, by O. Henry
- Wednesday, 5th: Ragtime, by E.L. Doctorow
- Tuesday, 4rd: The Last
Templar, by Michael Jecks
- Monday, 2nd: At Lady
Molly's, by Anthony Powell
July
- Friday, 30th: Royal
Flash, by George MacDonald Fraser
- Thursday, 29th: The
White Cottage Mystery, by Margery Allingham
- Wednesday, 28th: Tied
Up in Tinsel, by Ngaio Marsh
- Tuesday, 27th: Vanity
Dies Hard, by Ruth Rendell
- Monday, 26th: Count
Brass, by Michael Moorcock
- Friday, 23rd: The
Titian Committee, by Iain Pears
- Thursday, 22nd: The
Melting Man, by Victor Canning
- Wednesday, 21st: The
Beaux Stratagem, by George Farquhar
- Tuesday, 20th: Ancient
History: Evidence and Models, by M.I. Finley
- Monday, 19th: Octavia, by L. Annaeus Seneca (tr. by E.F.
Watling)
- Friday, 16th: Slaugherhouse 5, by Kurt Vonnegut
- Thursday, 15th: Oedipus, by L. Annaeus Seneca (tr. by E.F.
Watling)
- Wednesday, 14th: Roads
of Destiny, by O. Henry
- Tuesday, 13th: The
Trojan Women, by L. Annaeus Seneca (tr. by E.F. Watling)
- Monday, 12th: Cold
Fusion: The Scientific Fiasco of the Century, by John
Huizenga
- Friday, 9th: The
Acceptance World, by Anthony Powell
- Thursday, 8th: Phaedra, by L. Annaeus Seneca (tr. by E.F.
Watling)
Tuesday, 10th::::Thyestes, by L. Annaeus Seneca (tr. by E.F.
Watling)
- Tuesday, 6th: The
Emperor's New Mind, by Roger Penrose
- Monday, 5th: Frequent
Hearses, by Edmund Crispin
- Friday, 2nd: Flashman, by George MacDonald Fraser
- Thursday, 1st: When in
Rome, by Ngaio Marsh
June
- Wednesday, 30th: The
Runestaff, by Michael Moorcock
- Tuesday, 29th: Knowledge of Angels, by Jill Paton
Walsh
- Monday, 28th: Can You
Forgive Her, by Anthony Trollope
- Friday, 18th: The
Rivals, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Thursday, 17th: Birdcage, by Victor Canning
- Wednesday, 16th: Death
of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen
- Tuesday, 15th: Murder
in a Cathedral City, by Susan Coffey
- Monday, 14th: The World
of Odysseus, by M.I. Finley
- Friday, 11th: The Rose
Demon, by Paul Doherty
Tuesday, 10th::::The Gentle Grafter, by O. Henry
- Thursday, 10th: Berenice, by Jean Racine (tr. by John
Cairncross)
- Tuesday, 8th: Britannicus, by Jean Racine (tr. by John
Cairncross)
- Monday, 7th: Borrower
of the Night, by Elizabeth Peters
- Friday, 4th: Andromache, by Jean Racine (tr. by John
Cairncross)
- Thursday, 3rd: Our
Game, by John le Carré
Tuesday, 10th::::A Buyer's Market, by Anthony Powell
- Wednesday, 2nd: The
Captive, by Marcel Proust (tr. by C.K. Scott Moncrieff &
Terence Kilmartin)
- Tuesday, 1st: Wish You
Were Here, by Tom Holt
May
- Friday, 28th: Death and
Restoration, by Iain Pears
Tuesday, 10th::::Starquake, by Robert L. Forward
- Thursday, 27th: Palace, by Katherine Kerr & Mark
Kreighbaum
- Wednesday, 26th: Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete
Being, by Ted Hughes
- Tuesday, 25th: Carl
Nielsen, Symphonist, by Robert Simpson
- Monday, 24th: Clutch of
Constables, by Ngaio Marsh
- Friday, 21st: The Sword
of the Dawn, by Michael Moorcock
- Thursday, 20th: Grailblazers, by Tom Holt
- Wednesday, 19th: Once
Too Often, by Dorothy Simpson
- Tuesday, 18th: The Age
of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
- Monday, 17th: The Mask
of Memory, by Victor Canning
- Friday, 14th: Heart of
the West, by O. Henry
- Thursday, 13th: A
Question of Upbringing, by Anthony Powell
- Wednesday, 12th: The
Trouble With Science, by Robin Dunbar
- Tuesday, 11th: Payment
Deferred, by C.S. Forester
- Monday, 10th: An
Instance of the Fingerpost, by Iain Pears
- Thursday, 6th: Death at
the Dolphin, by Ngaio Marsh
- Tuesday, 4th: The Mad
God's Amulet, by Michael Moorcock
- Monday, 3rd: Le Malade
Imaginaire, by Molière (tr. as The
Hypochondriac by Martin Sorrell)
Tuesday, 10th:::: The Use and Abuse of History, by M.I.
Finley
April
- Thursday, 29th: Queen's
Pawn, by Victor Canning
- Tuesday, 27th: Athaliah, by Jean Racine (tr. by John
Cairncross)
- Monday, 26th: The Way
of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler
- Tuesday, 13th: Phaedra, by Jean Racine (tr. by John
Cairncross)
- Monday, 12th: Expecting
Someone Taller, by Tom Holt
Tuesday, 10th::::
March
- Wednesday, 31st: Iphigenia, by Jean Racine (tr. by John
Cairncross)
- Monday, 29th: Catch
22, by Joseph Heller
Tuesday, 10th::::The Four Million, by O. Henry
- Friday, 26th: The Dante
Game, by Jane Langton
Tuesday, 10th::::The Ship, by C.S. Forester
- Thursday, 25th: The Jew
of Malta, by Christopher Marlowe
Tuesday, 10th::::King Hereafter, by Dorothy Dunnett
- Wednesday, 24th: The
Legacy of Greece, ed. by M.I. Finley
Tuesday, 10th::::Dead Water, by Ngaio Marsh
- Tuesday, 23rd: The Dune
Encyclopedia, ed. by Willis E. McNelly
- Monday, 22nd: Pseudolus, by T. Maccius Plautus (tr. by
E.F. Watling)
- Friday, 19th: Miles
Gloriosus, by T. Maccius Plautus (tr. as The Swaggering
Soldier by E.F. Watling)
Tuesday, 10th::::The Brothers Menaechmus, by T. Maccius
Plautus (tr. by E.F. Watling)
- Thursday, 18th: The
Prisoners, by T. Maccius Plautus (tr. by E.F. Watling)
Tuesday, 10th::::Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson
- Tuesday, 16th: Aulularia, by T. Maccius Plautus (tr. and
completed as The Pot of Gold by E.F. Watling)
- Friday, 12th: The Jewel
in the Skull, by Michael Moorcock
- Monday, 1st: Sodome et
Gomorrhe, by Marcel Proust (tr. as Cities of the Plain
by C.K. Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin)
February
- Friday, 26th: The
Doomsday Carrier, by Victor Canning
Tuesday, 10th::::The Wyndham Case, by Jill Paton Walsh
- Thursday, 25th: The
General, by C.S. Forester
Tuesday, 10th::::Oxford Blood, by Antonia Fraser
- Friday, 19th: Hand in
Glove, by Ngaio Marsh
Tuesday, 10th::::Music, Imagination and Culture, by Nicholas
Cook
- Thursday, 18th: Chapter
House Dune, by Frank Herbert
Tuesday, 10th::::A Walk in the Dark Ages, by Frank
Delaney
- Tuesday, 16th: Caprice
and Rondo, by Dorothy Dunnett
Tuesday, 10th::::The Rituals of Infinity, by Michael
Moorcock
- Monday, 15th: Animal
Farm, by George Orwell
Tuesday, 10th::::The Good Shepherd, by C.S. Forester
- Thursday, 11th: War in
the Middle Ages, by Philippe Contamine (tr. by Michael
Jones)
Tuesday, 10th::::Henderson the Rain King, by Saul
Bellow
- Wednesday, 10th: False
Scent, by Ngaio Marsh
- Tuesday, 9th: Forbidden
Places, by Mary Napier
Tuesday, 10th::::Heretics of Dune, by Frank Herbert
- Monday, 8th: Assassin's
Quest, by Robin Hobb
- Friday, 5th: 1984,
by George Orwell
- Thursday, 4th: The
Cruel Sea, by Nicholas Monsarrat
- Wednesday, 3rd: The
Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust (tr. by C.K. Scott Moncrieff
& Terence Kilmartin)
January
- Friday, 29th: Black
Horses for the King, by Anne McCaffrey
- Thursday, 28th: Singing
in the Shrouds, by Ngaio Marsh
Tuesday, 10th::::Faithful Unto Death, by Caroline
Graham
- Tuesday, 26th: Lord
Hornblower, by C.S. Forester
- Monday, 25th: Medieval
Civilization, by Jacques le Goff (tr. by Julia Barrow)
- Friday, 22nd: The
Double Image, by Helen MacInnes
Tuesday, 10th::::Don't Mr Disraeli, by Caryl Brahms &
S.J. Simon
- Thursday, 21st: Dirty
Tricks, by Michael Dibdin
- Tuesday, 19th: God
Emperor of Dune, by Frank Herbert
- Monday, 18th: Three
Sisters, by Anton Chekov (tr. by Stephen Mulrine)
Tuesday, 10th::::Medieval Greece, by Nicholas Cheetham
- Thursday, 14th: A
Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller
Tuesday, 10th::::Callander Square, by Anne Perry
- Wednesday, 13th: Murder
Most Holy, by Paul Harding
- Tuesday, 12th: Jingo, by Terry Pratchett
- Monday, 11th: Le Malade
Imaginaire, by Molière (tr. as The Imaginary
Invalid by John Wood)
- Thursday, 7th: A Doctor
in Spite of Himself, by Molière (tr. by John Wood)
Tuesday, 10th::::Off With His Head, by Ngaio Marsh
- Wednesday, 6th: Tartuffe, or the Impostor, by
Molière (tr. by John Wood)
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