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Chapter 1 Gothic Romantic Fiction

  1. Overview

  2. Daphne de Maurier: My Cousin Rachel

  3. Victoria Holt= The Mistress of Mellyn

  4. Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave

Chapter 2 New Heroic Fantasy Fiction

  1. Overview

  2. 3. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings

  3. Susan Cooper: The Dark Is Rising

  4. Tanith Lee: The Birthgrave

Chapter 3 New Espionage Fiction

  1. Overview

  2. Ian Lancaster Fleming, Goldfinger

  3. Len Deighton. The IPCRESS File

  4. John Le Carre. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Chapter 4 Police Procedural Fiction

  1. Overview

  2. John Creasey: The Toff and the Toughs

  3. P. D. James: Shroud for a Nightingale

  4. Ruth Rendell: A Demon in My View

Chapter 5 New Historical Romantic Fiction

  1. Overview

  2. Dorothy Dunnett: The Game of Kings

  3. Catherine Cookson: The Mallen Girl

  4. A. S. Byatt: Possession: A Romance

Chapter 6 New-Wave Science Fiction

  1. Overview

  2. Brian Wilson Aldiss.The Dark Light Years

  3. J. G. Ballard. The Crystal World

  4. Michael Moorcock: Behold the Man

Chapter 7 Social Horror Fiction

  1. Overview

  2. James Herbert: The Rats

  3. Ramsey Campbell: The Doll Who Ate His Mother

  4. Clive Barker: Books of Blood ( Volume 1 )

Chapter 8 Mitary Adventurous Fiction

  1. Overview

  2. Desmond Bagley: The Snow Tiger

  3. Jack Higgins: The Eagle Has Landed

  4. Dudley Pope: Ramage and the Rebels

Chapter 9 Historical Detective Fiction

  1. Overview

  2. Ellis Peters: Monk's Hood

  3. Peter Lovesey: The False Inspector Dew

  4. Lindsey Davis: The Accusers

Chapter 10 Lesbian Fiction

  1. Overview

  2. Jeannette Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

  3. Patrick Gale: The Aerodynamics of Pork

  4. Alan .Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty

Chapter 11 New Women's Romantic Fiction

 1. Overview

  2. Joanna Trollope: The Rector's Wife

  3. Barbara Taylor Bradford: Her Own Rules

  4. Elizabeth Buchan: Everything She Thought She Wanted

Chapter 12 Young Adult Magic Fantasy Fiction

 1. Overview

 2. Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials, Northern Lights

 3. J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

 4. Diana Wynne Jones: Dark Lord of Derkholm

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