Michael Crichton’s novel Dragon Teeth was published in 2017, nine years after his death. There’s no indication as to whether the completed ...

Nelson DeMille’s By the Rivers of Babylon was published in 1978. He’d had about eight books published before this, but this was his breakou...

Robert Silverberg’s 1967 novel The Gate of Worlds was published in the UK in 1978. It’s an alternative history, set in 1963. Eighteen-year-...

Catherine Gavin’s 1978 novel None Dare Call it Treason is the second in her three books about the French Resistance. The first is Traitors’...

Michael Crichton and James Patterson’s Eruption was published in 2024. Crichton died in 2008 and left an unfinished manuscript plus many no...

R.C. Hutchinson’s novel Recollection of a Journey was published in 1952; this edition 1983. Several of Hutchinson’s novels are about a jo...

  Lionel Davidson’s Kolymsky Heights was published in 1994 and garnered great praise as a thriller of over 450 pages. It was his last novel...

W.P. Kinsella’s 1982 novel Shoeless Joe was filmed as Field of Dreams (1989). This fantasy story is preceded by a quotation from Bobby K...

Madeleine Brent’s historical first-person novel A Heritage of Shadows was published in 1983.   It’s 1891 in Paris and eighteen-year-old H...

Angela Carter’s novel Heroes and Villains was published in 1969; my paperback copy was published in 1981. We’re in post-apocalypse territ...

Philip José Farmer’s 1957 debut novel The Green Odyssey is a classic space opera of the period. Astronaut Alan Green (‘Greed conquered more...

The character Fantômas by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre is a twentieth century literary phenomenon. Published in 1911 it spawned thirt...