Hardcover Fiction

by Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press

by Sidney Sheldon · Morrow

Mary Ashley, the young newly appointed U.S. ambassador to an Iron Curtain country, becomes the target of an international cabal's assassination plot, she must discover which of the two men in her life is involved in the plot--Novelist.

by Colleen McCullough · Harper & Row

by Larry McMurtry · Simon & Schuster

by Sally Beauman · Bantam

by Stephen King · Viking Press

by Dick Francis · Putnam

by Walker Percy · Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Will Barrett is a 25-year-old wanderer from the South living in New York City, detached from his roots and with no plans for the future, until the purchase of a telescope sets off a romance and changes his life forever.

by Tom Clancy · Putnam

When Moslem fundamentalists destroy a key Soviet oil complex, the Russians initiate a plan of diplomatic trickery for their seizure of Persian Gulf oil.

by Pat Conroy · Houghton Mifflin

by John Gardner · Putnam

by David Eddings · Del Rey/Ballantine

by V. S. Naipaul · Knopf

Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself as a writer. It is the story of a journey, from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another, and is perhaps V. S. Naipaul’s most autobiographical work. Yet alongside this he weaves a rich and complex web of invention and observation. Finding depth and pathos in the smallest moments – the death of a cottager, the firing of an estate’s gardener – Naipaul also comprehends the bigger picture – watching as the old world is lost to the gradual but permanent changes wrought on the English landscape by the march of ‘progress’. ‘Written with the expected beauty of style . . . Instead of diminishing life, Naipaul ennobles it’ Anthony Burgess, Observer

by Stephen Coonts · Naval Institute Press

by Mona Simpson · Knopf

by Craig Thomas · Morrow