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December
- Saturday, 23rd: The
Stone Canal, by Ken MacLeod
- Friday, 22nd: The Pity
of War, by Niall Ferguson
Tuesday, 10thThe Government Inspector, by Nikolai Gogol
(tr. by Stephen Mulrine)
- Saturday, 16th: English
Social History, by G.M. Trevelyan
Tuesday, 10thTraffics and Discoveries, by Rudyard
Kipling
- Friday, 15th: Immortal
in Death, by J.D. Robb
- Thursday, 14th: Only
Human, by Tom Holt
November
- Wednesday, 29th: The
Swordsman's Oath, by Juliet E. McKenna
Tuesday, 10thMain Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- Tuesday, 28th: The Nano
Flower, by Peter F. Hamilton
- Monday, 27th: Three Men
in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome
- Tuesday, 21st: The
Venus Throw, by Stephen Saylor
- Monday, 20th: Fen
Country, by Edmund Crispin
- Friday, 17th: Komarr, by Lois McMaster Bujold
Tuesday, 10thGormenghast, by Mervyn Peake
- Thursday, 16th: The
Whip Hand, by Victor Canning
- Wednesday, 15th: Tinker
Tailor Soldier Spy, by John le Carre
- Tuesday, 14th: The
Day's Work, by Rudyard Kipling
Tuesday, 10thAn
Awkward Lie, by Michael Innes
Tuesday, 10thThe Rival Monster, by Compton
Mackenzie
- Monday, 13th: L'Assommoir, by Émile Zola
- Friday, 10th: Whisky
Galore, by Compton Mackenzie
- Thursday, 9th: The
Monarch of the Glen, by Compton Mackenzie
Tuesday, 10thStardust, by Neil Gaiman
- Wednesday, 8th: Under
the Net, by Iris Murdoch
Tuesday, 10thThe Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey
- Tuesday, 7th: The Door
Into Summer, by Robert Heinlein
- Monday, 6th: The
Moon-Spinners, by Mary Stewart
Tuesday, 10thThe Albigensian Crusade, by Jonathan
Sumption
Tuesday, 10thMidnight Plus One, by Gavin Lyall
- Friday, 3rd: The
Assassin's Riddle, by Paul Harding
Tuesday, 10thThe Gabriel Hounds, by Mary Stewart
Tuesday, 10thThe Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes
- Thursday, 2nd: The
Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
October
- Tuesday, 31st: Nicholas
Nickleby, by Charles Dickens
Tuesday, 10thLife's Handicap, by Rudyard Kipling
- Friday,27th: Mindstar
Rising, by Peter F. Hamilton
Tuesday, 10thLost Civilisations of the Stone Age, by
Brian Rudgley
- Thursday, 26th: Squire
Throwleigh's Heir, by Michael Jecks
- Wednesday, 25th: Who's
Afraid of Beowulf?, by Tom Holt
- Tuesday, 24th: Of Human
Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham
- Monday, 23rd: Trial at
Monomoy, by John Masters
- Friday, 20th: Airs
Above the Ground, by Mary Stewart
Tuesday, 10thAtlantic Fury, by Hammond Innes
- Thursday, 19th: A
Quantum Murder, by Peter F. Hamilton
Tuesday, 10thThe Light That Failed, by Rudyard
Kipling
- Friday, 13th: The Mamur
Zapt and the Donkey-Vous, by Michael Pearce
Tuesday, 10thAtlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
- Thursday, 12th: The
Snare of the Hunter, by Helen MacInnes
- Wednesday, 11th: Naked
in Death, by J.D. Robb
Tuesday, 10thA
Million Open Doors, by John Barnes
- Tuesday, 10th: The
Origin of the Universe, by John D. Barrow
Tuesday, 10thSerendipities, by Umberto Eco (tr. by
William Weaver)
- Monday, 9th: Follow the
Saint, by Leslie Charteris
- Friday, 6th: The Golden
Bowl, by Henry James
- Thursday, 5th: The Mary
Deare, by Hammond Innes
- Wednesday, 4th: Anglo-Saxon England, by Frank Stenton
Tuesday, 10thThe Ivy Tree, by Mary Stewart
Tuesday, 10thThe Camelot Caper, by Elizabeth Peters
- Tuesday, 3rd: Puck of
Pook's Hill, by Rudyard Kipling
Tuesday, 10thThe Mamur Zapt and Men Behind, by Michael
Pearce
Tuesday, 10thPegasus in Space, by Anne McCaffrey
Tuesday, 10thPebble in the Sky, by Isaac Asimov
- Monday, 2nd: Belladonna
at Belstone, by Michael Jecks
Tuesday, 10thPilgrimage, by Jonathan Sumption
September
- Friday, 29th: Enemy in
Sight!, by Alexander Kent
Tuesday, 10thDark Moon, by David Gemmell
Tuesday, 10thPrelude for War, by Leslie Charteris
- Thursday, 28th: The
Strode Venturer, by Hammond Innes
Tuesday, 10thA
Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
- Wednesday, 27th: Rapture in Death, by J.D. Robb
Tuesday, 10thTo
Ride Pegasus, by Anne McCaffrey
- Tuesday, 26th: Titus
Groan, by Mervyn Peake
Tuesday, 10thMetrophage, by Richard Kadrey
- Monday, 25th: Blue
Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Tuesday, 10thWorldly Goods, by Lisa Jardine
Tuesday, 10thWhere Was Rebecca Shot?, by John
Sutherland
- Friday, 15th: Dmitri
and the One-Legged Lady, by Michael Pearce
Tuesday, 10thA
Sudden Wild Magic, by Diana Wynne Jones
Tuesday, 10thThe Spy's Wife, by Reginald Hill
Tuesday, 10thThieves' Picnic, by Leslie Charteris
- Thursday, 14th: The
Last Post, by Ford Madox Ford
Tuesday, 10thHeavenly Vices, by D.M. Greenwood
Tuesday, 10thInherit the Earth, by Brian
Stableford
Tuesday, 10thA
Man Could Stand Up, by Ford Madox Ford
Tuesday, 10thLevkas Man, by Hammond Innes
- Wednesday, 13th: A Room
of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf
Tuesday, 10thThe Thin Man, by Dashiel Hammett
- Tuesday, 12th: No More
Parades, by Ford Madox Ford
Tuesday, 10thRose Cottage, by Mary Stewart
- Monday, 11th: Helga's
Web, by Jon Cleary
Tuesday, 10thThe Duke's Agent, by Rebecca Jenkins
Tuesday, 10thThe Thief's Gamble, by Juliet E.
McKenna
- Friday, 8th: Sea and
Islands, by Hammond Innes
Tuesday, 10thSome Do Not..., by Ford Madox Ford
- Thursday, 7th: The
Island, by Aldous Huxley
Tuesday, 10thLast Seen Wearing, by Hillary Waugh
Tuesday, 10thRats and Gargoyles, by Mary Gentle
- Wednesday, 6th: Martin
Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens
Tuesday, 10thThe Glass Key, by Dashiel Hammett
- Tuesday, 5th: Everything You Need, by A.L. Kennedy
Tuesday, 10thThe Beast Must Die, by Nicholas Blake
Tuesday, 10thBlessings in Disguise, by Alec
Guinness
- Monday, 4th: Dragonsinger: Harper of Pern, by Anne
McCaffrey
Tuesday, 10thAn
Alien Heat, by Michael Moorcock
- Friday, 1st: Orion
Arm, by Julian May
Tuesday, 10thArms of Nemesis, by Steven Saylor
Tuesday, 10thA
House for Mr Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul
August 2000
- Thursday, 31st: The
House that Nino Built, by Giovanni Guareschi
Tuesday, 10thThe Witch Doctor, by Christopher
Stasheff
- Wednesday, 30th: Black
Holes and Time Warps, by Kip S. Thorne
Tuesday, 10thLet it Bleed, by Ian Rankin
Tuesday, 10thThe Yermakov Transfer, by Derek
Lambert
- Tuesday, 29th: Athens, by Christian Meier (tr. by Robert
and Rita Kimber)
Tuesday, 10thMemory, by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Thursday, 24th: The
Recruiting Officer, by George Farquhar
- Wednesday, 23rd: The
Batsford Companion to Medieval England, by Nigel Saul
- Tuesday, 22nd: The Ace
of Knaves, by Leslie Charteris
Tuesday, 10thPeake's Progress, by Mervyn Peake (edited
by Maeve Gilmore)
Tuesday, 10thJacob's Room, by Virginia Woolf
- Monday, 21st: The World
at Night, by Alan Furst
Tuesday, 10thEyeless in Gaza, by Aldous Huxley
- Friday, 18th: The
Wapshot Scandal, by John Cheever
Tuesday, 10thLittle Dorrit, by Charles Dickens
- Thursday, 17th: The
Number of the Beast, by Robert Heinlein
- Wednesday, 16th: The
Crocodile on the Sandbank, by Elizabeth Peters
- Tuesday, 15th: The
Maltese Falcon, by Dashiel Hammett
Tuesday, 10thDeath at the President's Lodging, by
Michael Innes
- Monday, 14th: My
Brother Michael, by Mary Stewart
Tuesday, 10thGod in Concord, by Jane Langton
- Thursday, 10th: Love
Lies Bleeding, by Edmund Crispin
- Wednesday, 9th: Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Abkazan, by J.K. Rowling
Tuesday, 10thLysistrata, by Aristophanes (tr. by Patric
Dickinson)
Tuesday, 10thNative Son, by Richard Wright
- Tuesday, 8th: The
Eustace Diamonds, by Anthony Trollope
Tuesday, 10thTom Jones, by Henry Fielding
- Monday, 7th: Knights of
Dark Renown, by David Gemmell
Tuesday, 10thThe Sword and the Stallion, by Michael
Moorcock
- Thursday, 3rd: The File
on Devlin, by Catherine Gaskin
Tuesday, 10thDeath of a Lady's Maid, by Judith Cook
- Wednesday, 2nd: Green
Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Tuesday, 1st: Traitor's
Purse, by Margery Allingham
Tuesday, 10thSaint Overboard, by Leslie Charteris
Tuesday, 10thThe Dictionary of the Khazars, by Milorad
Pavic (tr. by Christina Pribicevic-Zoric)
July
- Monday, 31st: The
Bernini Bust, by Iain Pears
Tuesday, 10thA
Room With A View, by E.M. Forster
- Friday,28th: Woyzeck, by Georg Büaut;chner (tr.
by Gregory Notton)
Tuesday, 10thBrave New World, by Aldous Huxley
- Thursday, 27th: The
Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene
- Wednesday, 26th: Nine
Coaches Waiting, by Mary Stewart
- Tuesday, 25th: Golden
Witchbreed, by Mary Gentle
Tuesday, 10thMrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
Tuesday, 10thOn
the Road, by Jack Kerouac
- Monday, 24th: Lies,
Inc, by Philip K. Dick
Tuesday, 10thThe Oak and the Ram, by Michael
Moorcock
Tuesday, 10thThe Dain Curse, by Dashiel Hammett
Tuesday, 10thThe Archivist, by Marsha Cooley
- Thursday, 20th: The
Green Gallant, by Jane Hunt
Tuesday, 10thHard Times, by Charles Dickens
- Wednesday, 19th: The
Devil's Domain, by Paul Doherty
Tuesday, 10thThe Ambassadors, by Henry James
Tuesday, 10thThe Saint in New York, by Leslie
Charteris
- Tuesday, 18th: Comrade
Don Camillo, by Giovanni Guareschi (tr. by Frances
Frenaye)
Tuesday, 10thThe Business, by Iain Banks
- Monday, 17th: A
Confession, by Lev Tolstoy
- Wednesday, 12th: Dmitri
and the Milk Drinkers, by Michael Pearce
- Tuesday, 4th: The Bull
and the Spear, by Michael Moorcock
June
- Friday, 30th: Notes
From Underground, by Feodor Dostoyevsky (tr. by C.J. Hogarth,
adapted by A.D.P. Briggs)
Tuesday, 10thRed Harvest, by Dashiell Hammett
- Tuesday, 27th: Mirror
Dance, by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Friday, 23rd: Doctor
Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
- Thursday, 22nd: The
Aspirin Age, ed. by Isabel Leighton
Tuesday, 10thIn
Gallant Company, by Alexander Kent
- Wednesday, 21st: Oscar
and Lucinda, by Peter Carey
- Tuesday, 20th: Quisanté, by Anthony Hope
- Tuesday, 13th: The
Saint Goes On, by Leslie Charteris
Tuesday, 10thThe Big Money, by John dos Passos
- Monday, 12th: Eldorado, by Baroness Orczy
- Friday, 9th: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
- Wednesday, 7th: Nineteen Nineteen, by John dos Passos
- Tuesday, 6th: Don
Camillo and the Devil, by Giovanni Guareschi
- Monday, 5th: Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling
Tuesday, 10thHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,
by J.K. Rowling
- Friday, 2nd: You Were
There, by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon
Tuesday, 10thLaptop of the Gods, by Peter
Chippindale
- Thursday, 1st: The 42nd
Parallel, by John dos Passos
May
- Tuesday, 30th: The King
of the Swords, by Michael Moorcock
- Friday,26th: Farewell
to Reason, by Paul Feyerabend
- Thursday, 25th: Running
Scared, by Ann Granger
Tuesday, 10thHearing Secret Harmonies, by Anthony
Powell
- Wednesday, 24th: Carpe
Juggulum, by Terry Pratchett
Tuesday, 10thSloop of War, by Alexander Kent
- Tuesday, 23rd: Great
Expectations, by Charles Dickens
Tuesday, 10thTrent's Last Case, by E.C. Bentley
- Monday, 22nd: The Heart
of the Matter, by Graham Greene
- Friday, 17th: Rupert of
Hentzau, by Anthony Hope
- Thursday, 16th: Reave
the Just, by Stephen Donaldson
- Wednesday, 15th: Thunder on the Right, by Mary Stewart
- Tuesday, 14th: Boodle (later retitled The Saint
Intervenes), by Leslie Charteris
Tuesday, 10thA
Small Town in Germany, by John le Carré
- Monday, 13th: The
Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy
- Friday, 12th: Les
Liaisons Dangereuses, by Choderlos de Laclos (tr. by P.W.K.
Stone)
- Thursday, 11th: Don
Camillo's Dilemma, by Giovanni Guareschi (tr. by Frances
Frenaye)
- Wednesday, 10th: For
Kings and Planets, by Ethan Canin
Tuesday, 10thAlvin Journeyman, by Orson Scott Card
Tuesday, 10thA
Shilling for Candles, by Josephine Tey
- Tuesday, 9th: The Long
Farewell, by Michael Innes
- Monday, 8th: The
Learned Ladies, by Molière (tr. by A.R. Waller, updated
by Steven Pimlott & Colin Chambers
- Friday, 5th: The Queen
of the Swords, by Michael Moorcock
- Thursday, 4th: The
Pelican History of the World, by J.M.Roberts
Tuesday, 10thA
Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh
- Wednesday, 3rd: Cato's
War, by Guy Wheeler
Tuesday, 10thRed Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Tuesday, 10thThe Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope
- Tuesday, 2nd: The
Misfortunes of Mr Teal (later retitled The Saint in
London), by Leslie Charteris
- Monday, 1st: I Will
Repay, by Baroness Orczy
Tuesday, 10thTemporary Kings, by Anthony Powell
April
- Friday, 28th: Impossibility, by John D. Barrow
Tuesday, 10thDon Camillo and the Prodigal Son, by
Giovanni Guareschi (tr. by Frances Frenaye)
Tuesday, 10thThe Perseus Spur, by Julian May
- Friday, 14th: Vathek, by William Beckford (tr. by Samuel
Henley)
Tuesday, 10thThe Knight of the Swords, by Michael
Moorcock
- Thursday, 13th: Leap in
the Dark, by Anthony McCandless
- Wednesday, 12th: Dombey
and Son, by Charles Dickens
Tuesday, 10thThe Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford
- Tuesday, 11th: The
Eagle Has Landed, by Jack Higgins
- Monday, 10th: The
Brighter Buccaneer, by Leslie Charteris
Tuesday, 10thThe Mask of Ra, by Paul Doherty
- Friday, 7th: The Man in
the Queue, by Josephine Tey
Tuesday, 10thThe Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness
Orczy
- Thursday, 6th: The
Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance
Literature, by C.S. Lewis
- Wednesday, 5th: The
Little World of Don Camillo, by Giovanni Guareschi (tr. by Una
Vincenzo Troubridge)
- Tuesday, 4th: The House
on the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson
- Monday, 3rd: Spellsinger, by Alan Dean Foster
March
- Friday, 31st: Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
- Thursday, 30th: The
Steel Tsar, by Michael Moorcock
- Wednesday, 29th: The
Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë;
- Tuesday, 28th: The Flag
Captain, by Alexander Kent
Tuesday, 10thBooks Do Furnish a Room, by Anthony
Powell
- Monday, 27th: The Last
Kabbalist of Lisbon, by Richard Zimler
- Thursday, 23rd: The
Mask of Command, by John Keegan
- Wednesday, 22nd: The
Saint and Mr Teal (renamed Once More the Saint), by
Leslie Charteris
Tuesday, 10thModesty Blaise, by Peter O'Donnell
- Tuesday, 21st: The Last
Continent, by Terry Pratchett
- Monday, 20th: The
Captain's Table, by Richard Gordon
Tuesday, 10thThe Wapshot Chronicle, by John Cheever
- Friday, 17th: Wildfire
at Midnight, by Mary Stewart
Tuesday, 10thThe Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
- Thursday, 16th: The
Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole
- Wednesday, 15th: Rubicon, by Steven Saylor
- Tuesday, 14th: Stand on
Zanzibar, by John Brunner
- Monday, 13th: Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
Tuesday, 10thWide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
- Thursday, 9th: Carson's
Conspiracy, by Michael Innes
- Friday, 3rd: David
Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
- Thursday, 2nd: The Land
Leviathan, by Michael Moorcock
- Wednesday, 1st: The
Magus, by John Fowles
February
- Thursday, 24th: The Way
to Babylon, by Paul Kearney
- Wednesday, 23rd: The
Limner, by Paul Darcy Boles
- Tuesday, 22nd: Miss Pym
Disposes, by Josephine Tey
- Monday, 21st: The Monk
Who Vanished, by Peter Tremayne
- Friday, 18th: The
Darwin Wars, by Andrew Brown
- Wednesday, 16th: Madam,
Will You Talk, by Mary Stewart
- Tuesday, 15th: Round
Ireland With a Fridge, by Tony Hawks
- Monday, 14th: Future
Indefinite, by Dave Duncan
- Friday, 11th: The
Pretenders, by Henrik Ibsen (tr. by Evelyn Ramsden & Glynne
Wickham)
- Thursday, 10th: Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth
- Wednesday, 9th: The
Military Philosophers, by Anthony Powell
Tuesday, 10thMrs Warren's Profession, by George Bernard
Shaw
Tuesday, 10thThe Philanderer, by George Bernard
Shaw
Tuesday, 10thWidowers' Houses, by George Bernard
Shaw
- Monday, 7th: The Way of
the World, by William Congreve
- Thursday, 3rd: Call the
Dead Again, by Ann Granger
Tuesday, 10thThe Soldier's Art, by Anthony Powell
- Wednesday, 2nd: The
Face of Battle, by John Keegan
January
- Friday, 28th: High
House, by James Stoddard
- Wednesday, 26th: Black
Beech and Honeydew, by Ngaio Marsh
- Monday, 24th: The
Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain
- Friday, 21st: Malice
Aforethought, by Francis Iles
- Thursday, 20th: About
Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, by Paul Davies
- Wednesday, 19th: Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini
- Tuesday, 18th: The Tin
Men, by Michael Frayn
Tuesday, 10thPale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov
- Monday, 17th: The
Classical Style, by Charles Rosen
- Thursday, 13th: The
Tower and the Hive, by Anne McCaffrey
- Wednesday, 12th: Getaway (retitled The Saint's
Getaway), by Leslie Charteris
Tuesday, 10thPresent Tense, by Dave Duncan
- Monday, 10th: Dread
Companion, by Andre Norton
Tuesday, 10thHoly Disorders, by Edmund Crispin
- Friday, 7th: Bleak
House, by Charles Dickens
- Thursday, 6th: Tender
is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Wednesday, 5th: Flashman at the Charge, by George MacDonald
Fraser
Tuesday, 10thThe War Lord of the Air, by Michael
Moorcock
- Tuesday, 4th: Black
Plumes, by Margery Allingham
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