{"product_id":"2026100012076-secondhand-sundry-creditors","title":"Sundry Creditors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of a struggling British manufacturing firm, loyalties fracture and ambitions collide in Nigel Balchin's razor-sharp industrial novel, Sundry Creditors. The story chronicles the tensions within a family-owned business as competing interests — shareholders, workers, management, and family — pull the enterprise toward an inevitable reckoning, exposing the quiet brutality of commerce dressed in the language of civility.\n\nBalchin, celebrated for his psychologically astute portrayals of institutional life in works such as The Small Back Room, brings the same incisive intelligence to bear on the world of postwar British industry, dissecting the moral compromises that accumulate beneath the surface of respectable professional life. His prose is taut and unsentimental, rendering complex characters with an economy that magnifies their contradictions rather than resolving them. Sundry Creditors stands as a compelling study in how the demands of money and power corrode the bonds between people — leaving the reader to wonder who, in the end, will be left to settle the account.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51070621941979,"sku":"2026100012076-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/3911b35c-5819-4be1-828c-c9dd78fc21bb.png?v=1794188094","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012076-secondhand-sundry-creditors","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}