New Books
- Kingsley Amis - The Golden Age of Science Fiction
- Martin Amis - Other People
- Louis Auchincloss - The Cat and the King
- René Barjavel - Une rose au paradis
- Samuel Beckett - Ill Seen Ill Said
- Thomas Berger - Reinhart's Women
- Pierre Berton - Flames Across the Border
- Judy Blume - Tiger Eyes
- Simon Bond- 101 Uses for a Dead Cat
- William Boyd - A Good Man in Africa
- Peter Carey - Bliss
- Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
- David Case - The Third Grave
- James Clavell - Noble House
- Roald Dahl - George's Marvellous Medicine
- L. Sprague de Camp - The Hand of Zei
- L. Sprague de Camp & Catherine Crook de Camp - Footprints on Sand
- Bernard Cornwell
- Sharpe's Eagle
- Sharpe's Gold
- Samuel R. Delany - Distant Star
- Régine Deforges - La Bicyclette Bleue (The Blue Bicycle)
- Cynthia Freeman - No Time for Tears
- John Gardner - Licence Renewed
- Charles L. Grant - Tales from the Nightside
- Alasdair Gray - Lanark
- Jan Guillou - Ondskan
- Thomas Harris - Red Dragon
- Frank Herbert - God Emperor of Dune
- Douglas Hill - Planet of the Warlord
- Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp - The Flame Knife
- John Irving - The Hotel New Hampshire
- Alan Judd - A Breed of Heroes
- Ismail Kadare - The File on H (Dosja J)
- Stephen King - Cujo
- Colleen McCullough - An Indecent Obsession
- Elliot S! Maggin - Miracle Monday
- Naguib Mahfouz - Arabian Nights and Days
- Gabriel García Márquez - Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- Ian McEwan - The Comfort of Strangers
- Toni Morrison - Tar Baby
- Robert B. Parker
- A Savage Place
- Early Autumn
- Ellis Peters
- Saint Peter's Fair
- The Leper of Saint Giles
- Terry Pratchett - Strata
- Alain Robbe-Grillet - Djinn
- Harold Robbins - Goodbye, Janette
- Lawrence Sanders - The Third Deadly Sin
- Martin Cruz Smith - Gorky Park
- Muriel Spark - Loitering with Intent
- Paul Theroux - The Mosquito Coast
- D. M. Thomas - The White Hotel
- Jack Vance - The Book of Dreams
- Gore Vidal - Creation
- Joseph Wambaugh - The Glitter Dome
- Kit Williams - Masquerade
- Gene Wolfe
- The Claw of the Conciliator
- The Sword of the Lictor
- Roger Zelazny
- The Changing Land
- Madwand
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