New Books
- Ben Aaronovitch & Kate Orman - So Vile a Sin
- Mitch Albom - Tuesdays With Morrie
- Martin Amis - Night Train
- John Banville - The Untouchable
- Hazel Barnes - The Story I Tell Myself
- Marie Bashkirtseff - I Am the Most Interesting Book of All (Translation)
- Raymond Benson - Tomorrow Never Dies and Zero Minus Ten
- Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman - Vampire Science
- 'Asta Bowen - Wolf: A Journey Home
- Simon Bucher-Jones - Ghost Devices
- Christopher Bulis - A Device of Death
- Tim Burton - The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories
- Candace Bushnell - Sex and the City
- Peter Carey - Jack Maggs
- Agatha Christie
- The Harlequin Tea Set
- While the Light Lasts and Other Stories
- Mary Higgins Clark - Pretend You Don't See Her
- Warwick Collins - Gents
- Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Tiger and Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur
- Patricia Cornwell - Hornet's Nest and Unnatural Exposure
- Paul Cornell - Oh No It Isn't!
- Robert Crais - Indigo Slam
- Ann C. Crispin - The Hutt Gambit and The Paradise Snare
- Don DeLillo - Underworld
- Anita Diamant - The Red Tent
- Terrance Dicks - The Eight Doctors and Mean Streets
- Fernanda Eberstadt - When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth
- Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain
- Anthony Frewin - London Blues
- John Grisham - The Partner
- Barbara Hambly - Planet of Twilight
- Allison Hedge Coke - Dog Road Woman American Book Award winner 1998
- Nancy Huston - Instruments of Darkness
- Matt Jones - Beyond the Sun
- Sebastian Junger - The Perfect Storm
- Winona LaDuke - Last Standing Woman
- Paul Leonard - Genocide
- Ann-Marie MacDonald - Fall on Your Knees
- Bernard MacLaverty - Grace Notes
- Ian R. MacLeod - Voyages by Starlight
- Norman Mailer - The Gospel According to the Son
- Ian McEwan - Enduring Love
- David A. McIntee - The Dark Path
- Lawrence Miles - Alien Bodies and Down
- Mark Morris - The Bodysnatchers
- Jim Mortimore - Eternity Weeps
- Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum - The Room With No Doors, So Vile a Sin and Vampire Science
- Lance Parkin - The Dying Days
- James Patterson - Cat and Mouse
- Cyril Pearl - Morisson of Peking
- John Peel - War of the Daleks
- Marc Platt - Lungbarrow
- Terry Pratchett - Jingo
- Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife
- Thomas Pynchon - Mason & Dixon
- Kathy Reichs - Déjà Dead
- Justin Richards - Dragons' Wrath
- Mordecai Richler - Barney's Version
- Gareth Roberts - The Well-Mannered War
- Philip Roth - American Pastoral
- J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
- Don Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements
- Gary Russell - Deadfall
- Sarah Ferguson - Budgie the Little Helicopter
- Will Self - Great Apes
- Carol Shields - Larry's Party
- Sidney Sheldon - The Best Laid Plans
- Michael Stackpole - The Bacta War
- Danielle Steel - The Ghost, The Ranch and Special Delivery
- Dave Stone - Burning Heart and Ship of Fools
- William Sutcliffe - Are You Experienced?
- Antonio Tabucchi - The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro
- Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now
- Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake
- Timothy Zahn - Specter of the Past
- Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold - Donnerjack
- Binod Bihari Verma - Nayanmani Maithili Novel
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