Contemporary Fiction Bargain Book Box

Contemporary Fiction Bargain Book Box

Rupert Everett writing short stories. Judy Murray writing a novel. Cleo Watson, formerly of Downing Street, writing something called Cleavage.

The unexpected names are part of the appeal, but the box holds its literary weight too. R O Kwon on desire and inheritance. Andrew Lipstein’s very sharp novel about a man undone by a dinner party and a dog. Antonella Lettieri on what remains after a life. Amanda Craig’s Shakespearean Tuscan comedy. And a debut compared, fairly, to both The Miniaturist and The Yellow Wallpaper.

Plus a modern Bennet sisters retelling, a Dorothy Koomson thriller, a romance from Lizzy Dent, and a novel following three women through one building across a century.

Funny, sharp, occasionally devastating — contemporary fiction doing what it does best.

1. After Darcy — Joanna Nadin | ISBN: 9781835016282 | RRP: $32.99
   A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice centred on the Bennet sisters — sisterhood, second chances, and what happens after the wedding. Warm and witty, and written with genuine affection for the original.
2. A Flaw in the Design — Nathan Oates | ISBN: 9781800812789 | RRP: $39.99
   Praised by the Guardian as a psychological thriller par excellence. A man’s nephew comes to live with his family, and every certainty he holds about the boy begins to erode. Tense, intelligent, and deeply unsettling.
3. All the Things We Don’t Talk About — Amy Feltman | ISBN: 9781538704721 | RRP: $45.00
   A tender and perceptive novel about a non-binary teenager, their reclusive father, and the mother who left. Amy Feltman writes family silence and queer identity with real compassion.
4. Laws of Love and Logic — Debra Curtis | ISBN: 9781526683496 | RRP: $32.99
   A smart contemporary novel about the tension between what makes sense and what the heart actually wants. Sharp, funny, and nicely observed.
5. Give Him to Me — Dorothy Koomson | ISBN: 9781472298157 | RRP: $49.99
   A heart-stopping thriller from the Queen of the Big Reveal. Dorothy Koomson builds her secrets carefully and detonates them precisely — one of the most reliably compelling writers in the business.
6. Cleavage — Cleo Watson | ISBN: 9781472157324 | RRP: $24.99
   From the former Downing Street adviser comes another gleefully scandalous Westminster novel — sex, power, and political ambition rendered with genuine insider knowledge and absolutely no restraint.
7. The Woman in the Wallpaper — Lora Jones | ISBN: 9781408731420 | RRP: $34.99
   A spellbinding debut for readers of The Miniaturist and The Yellow Wallpaper, set in eighteenth-century London among the wallpaper workshops. Atmospheric, claustrophobic, and beautifully written.
8. The American No — Rupert Everett | ISBN: 9781408714188 | RRP: $34.99
   A collection of stories built from the films Everett wrote that never got made — Hollywood rejections turned into fiction. Wickedly funny, surprisingly poignant, and written with his trademark acidity.
9. One Girl Began — Kate Murray-Browne | ISBN: 9781399613675 | RRP: $24.99
   Three women, one building, and a century of change. An immersive, riveting novel for readers of Kate Atkinson and Maggie O’Farrell — structurally clever and emotionally generous.
10. The Vegan — Andrew Lipstein | ISBN: 9781399602600 | RRP: $24.99
    A hedge fund manager plays a cruel prank at a dinner party, and something in him breaks. A very funny, very strange novel about conscience, animals, and the thin ice beneath a certain kind of success.
11. The Wild Card — Judy Murray | ISBN: 9781398711334 | RRP: $49.99
    The tennis coach and broadcaster turns novelist, drawing on a lifetime inside the professional game. Captivating, uplifting, and full of detail only someone who has lived it could supply.
12. The Sweetest Revenge — Lizzy Dent | ISBN: 9780593545478 | RRP: $45.00
    A warm and very funny novel about getting even, getting over it, and the mess in between. Lizzy Dent writes comedy with real heart underneath.
13. All That Is Left of Life — Antonella Lettieri | ISBN: 9780349704586 | RRP: $49.99
    A spare and affecting novel about memory, loss, and the fragments that remain when everything else is gone. Written with unusual precision and restraint.
14. This Love — Lotte Jeffs | ISBN: 9780349703176 | RRP: $24.99
    Called the new One Day by the Sunday Times Style. A queer love story told across years and near-misses, with real emotional intelligence and a very sure hand with time.
15. How to Leave the House — Nathan Newman | ISBN: 9780349145631 | RRP: $45.00
    A riotously funny debut following one day, one small town, and one missing package, told through a cast of characters whose lives keep colliding. Energetic, filthy, and genuinely clever.
16. Love In Idleness — Amanda Craig | ISBN: 9780349115856 | RRP: $26.99
    Described by Alison Lurie as really charming and inspired. Amanda Craig’s Tuscan summer comedy, loosely shadowing A Midsummer Night’s Dream — a house party, a heatwave, and a great deal of misdirected desire.
17. Exhibit — R O Kwon | ISBN: 9780349013701 | RRP: $22.99
    From the author of The Incendiaries comes a taut, sensual novel about a photographer, a ballerina, and an ancestral curse. R O Kwon writes desire, art, and inheritance with extraordinary compression.
18. The Astral Library — Kate Quinn | ISBN: 9780008806231 | RRP: $34.99
    From the bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Rose Code comes a new novel built around a library and the lives running through it. Kate Quinn is one of the most reliably satisfying storytellers working.