Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box

Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box

From a Russian dissident's darkly funny prison diary to Kafkaesque short stories, magical bakeries, and quietly devastating family dramas, this box brings together seventeen works of literary fiction that range across voice, form, and subject matter while sharing one thing in common — exceptional writing. Several are award winners or shortlisted titles, making this a box for readers who want their fiction to do more than just entertain.

1. The Marsh Queen — Virginia Hartman | ISBN: 9781982171605 | RRP: $45.00
   A wildlife artist returns to her childhood home in the Florida wetlands and finds herself drawn into the unresolved mystery of her father's death. Virginia Hartman blends literary character study with genuine suspense in a richly atmospheric debut.
2. The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 — Kira Yarmysh | ISBN: 9781800817531 | RRP: $36.99
   Written by Alexei Navalny's former spokesperson, this darkly comic novel draws on the author's own experience of political imprisonment in Russia. Sharp, absurd, and quietly devastating, it offers a rare and vital perspective on dissent and survival.
3. A Flaw in the Design — Nathan Oates | ISBN: 9781800815537 | RRP: $32.99
   Praised by the Guardian as a psychological thriller par excellence, this taut literary novel follows a man whose nephew comes to live with his family — and the slow unravelling of certainty about who he really is. Tense, intelligent, and unsettling.
4. You'd Look Better as a Ghost — Joanna Wallace | ISBN: 9781800811324 | RRP: $24.99
   A wickedly funny and surprisingly tender novel about a serial killer who is also, somehow, a devoted single mother. Joanna Wallace pulls off a remarkable balancing act between dark comedy and genuine emotional depth.
5. A Good House for Children — Kate Collins | ISBN: 9781788169301 | RRP: $32.99
   Longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, this haunting debut follows two families separated by decades but connected by the same unsettling house on the Devon coast. Atmospheric, literary, and quietly chilling.
6. The Witches of Vardo — Anya Bergman | ISBN: 9781786581914 | RRP: $39.99
   An international bestseller praised by the Sunday Times as powerful and deeply moving, this historical novel reimagines the real seventeenth-century witch trials of northern Norway through the eyes of the women accused. Beautifully written and genuinely affecting.
7. Sourdough — Robin Sloan | ISBN: 9781786494115 | RRP: $22.99
   A whimsical, big-hearted novel about a programmer who inherits a mysterious sourdough starter — and finds her life transformed by the strange, almost magical community of food it connects her to. Funny, original, and full of warmth.
8. My Brilliant Sister — Amy Brown | ISBN: 9781761424359 | RRP: $32.99
   A sharply observed novel about sisterhood, ambition, and the literary legacy of Miles Franklin, weaving together past and present in a story about the cost of a creative life. Amy Brown writes with real intelligence and emotional precision.
9. We're Alone — Edwidge Danticat | ISBN: 9781529439212 | RRP: $45.00
   A Roxane Gay Book Club Pick for 2024, this powerful essay collection from one of contemporary literature's most acclaimed voices explores migration, motherhood, grief, and home. Edwidge Danticat writes with extraordinary clarity and grace.
10. Monument Maker — David Keenan | ISBN: 9781474617109 | RRP: $24.99
    An ambitious, formally daring novel that spans centuries and continents in its exploration of art, empire, and obsession. David Keenan writes fiction that pushes against the boundaries of the form — challenging, immersive, and unlike anything else on the shelf.
11. Reasonable People — Caroline Hulse | ISBN: 9781409197287 | RRP: $49.99
    A sharply funny and deeply relatable novel about two feuding families forced to spend Christmas under one roof. Caroline Hulse has a gift for finding the comedy and the heartbreak in ordinary family dysfunction.
12. The Hypocrite — Jo Hamya | ISBN: 9781399613224 | RRP: $49.99
    Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards 2024 and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2025, this incisive novel follows a daughter watching a stage adaptation of her own life, written by her famous father. A clever, cutting exploration of memory, power, and whose version of events gets to count as true.
13. Even If Everything Ends — Jens Liljestrand | ISBN: 9781399602686 | RRP: $49.99
    A gripping climate disaster novel told through the eyes of a fractured Swedish family as catastrophic wildfires close in. Jens Liljestrand combines literary precision with real narrative urgency in a story that feels uncomfortably close to home.
14. A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories — Ali Smith and others | ISBN: 9780349146409 | RRP: $49.99
    Ten major contemporary writers respond to the spirit and strangeness of Franz Kafka in this inventive story collection. Surreal, sharp, and constantly surprising — a celebration of one of literature's most singular imaginations.
15. Day — Michael Cunningham | ISBN: 9780008637590 | RRP: $22.99
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours comes a quietly devastating novel following one family across three consecutive years on the same April day. Michael Cunningham remains one of literary fiction's most precise and moving chroniclers of ordinary life.
16. The House of Fever — Polly Crosby | ISBN: 9780008550707 | RRP: $34.99
    A richly atmospheric novel steeped in family secrets, art, and a crumbling English house with a history it refuses to give up easily. Polly Crosby writes with real gothic flair and a strong sense of place.
17. In a Thousand Different Ways — Cecelia Ahern | ISBN: 9780008195007 | RRP: $24.99
    A tender and inventive novel about a young woman who experiences emotions as colours — a gift and a burden that shapes every relationship in her life. Cecelia Ahern brings her trademark warmth and imagination to a story about feeling everything, all at once.