Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box

Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box

A Booker longlisting, a Pulitzer winner in 1970s Harlem, a new Adichie, and Murakami in a deluxe gift edition.

The range runs wide here. Shūsaku Endō on Jesuit missionaries facing persecution in seventeenth-century Japan — one of the great novels of faith under pressure. Walter Kempowski on growing up bourgeois in Nazi Germany, written with a flatness that becomes devastating. Joyce Carol Oates on a wealthy American family unravelling after the patriarch dies. Anthony Doerr threading one fragile ancient manuscript through Constantinople, a small-town library, and a ship bound for another star.

Then the current voices: Tash Aw, Colson Whitehead, Bella Mackie turning a family inheritance into very dark comedy, and a debut narrated in a voice unlike anything else in contemporary fiction.

Prize-winners, quiet masterpieces, and books that get argued about properly.

1. 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.
2. After Dark — Haruki Murakami | ISBN: 9781787304239 | RRP: $45.00
   Murakami’s atmospheric masterpiece in a deluxe gift edition. A single night in Tokyo, two sisters, a jazz musician, and the strange permeability between sleeping and waking. Spare, hypnotic, and one of his most tightly controlled novels.
3. An Ordinary Youth — Walter Kempowski | ISBN: 9781783788842 | RRP: $45.00
   A German classic finally available in English. Kempowski’s autobiographical novel of a comfortable bourgeois family in wartime Rostock, told in fragments, overheard remarks, and popular songs. The ordinariness is exactly the point — and it is devastating.
4. The Matchbox Girl — Alice Jolly | ISBN: 9781526681058 | RRP: $32.99
   Winner of the 2026 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Alice Jolly has long been one of Britain’s most interesting and least predictable novelists, and this is the book that brought her the recognition she has been owed for years.
5. All the Little Bird-Hearts — Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow | ISBN: 9781472288042 | RRP: $24.99
   Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023. An autistic single mother in 1980s England watches her daughter drawn into the orbit of glamorous new neighbours. Told in a voice unlike anything else in contemporary fiction — precise, literal, and quietly heartbreaking.
6. 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. Literary precision combined with real narrative urgency, in a story that feels uncomfortably close to home.
7. Silence — Shūsaku Endō | ISBN: 9781250082275 | RRP: $19.99
   A masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction. Portuguese Jesuits enter seventeenth-century Japan in search of a missing mentor and find a persecution that forces every certainty they hold into question. Profound, spare, and unforgettable — later filmed by Scorsese.
8. Cool Water — Myfanwy Jones | ISBN: 9780733650024 | RRP: $32.99
   An Australian novel of real emotional precision, exploring grief, connection, and the way people find their way back toward each other. Myfanwy Jones writes interior lives with unusual care.
9. Crook Manifesto  — Colson Whitehead | ISBN: 9780349727660 | RRP: $24.99
   Described by the Sunday Times as fast, fun, and ribald. The Pulitzer-winning author returns to 1970s Harlem and furniture dealer Ray Carney — part crime caper, part social history, wholly brilliant.
10. Things We Lose in Waves — Lucy Ayrton | ISBN: 9780349701875 | RRP: $49.99
    A novel of loss, memory, and the sea, from a writer with a background in spoken word whose prose carries that rhythm with it. Emotionally acute and beautifully constructed.
11. Hearts and Minds — Amanda Craig | ISBN: 9780349115870 | RRP: $26.99
    Praised by Maggie O’Farrell as ambitious, compelling, and utterly gripping. Amanda Craig’s panoramic London novel follows lives that would never otherwise meet — a trafficked girl, a teacher, a cab driver, a lawyer — and the city that throws them together.
12. Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. — Joyce Carol Oates | ISBN: 9780062797582 | RRP: $49.99
    A vast and uncompromising novel about a wealthy American family unravelling after the patriarch’s death, and the racial violence at its heart. Oates at full power — relentless, forensic, and impossible to look away from.
13. Saltcrop — Yume Kitasei | ISBN: 9780008764678 | RRP: $34.99
    From the author of The Stardust Grail comes a novel that brings her distinctive imaginative range to new territory. Kitasei writes with genuine heart and a willingness to let a story go somewhere unexpected.
14. Dream Count — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ISBN: 9780008751685 | RRP: $39.99
    The long-awaited new novel from the author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun — four women across continents reckoning with love, ambition, family, and the choices that shaped them. One of the most anticipated literary releases in years.
15. The South — Tash Aw | ISBN: 9780008637613 | RRP: $32.99
    A beautifully restrained coming-of-age novel set on a failing Malaysian farm, following a family in the long aftermath of a death and a boy discovering who he is. Tash Aw writes desire, class, and silence with extraordinary control.
16. What A Way To Go — Bella Mackie | ISBN: 9780008559526 | RRP: $34.99
    From the author of How to Kill Your Family comes another very funny, very dark novel about an appalling wealthy family and the fortune they are all circling. Mackie writes satire with genuine teeth.
17. Cloud Cuckoo Land — Anthony Doerr | ISBN: 9780008478292 | RRP: $39.99
    From the author of All the Light We Cannot See comes an extraordinary novel braiding together the siege of Constantinople, a small-town American library, and an interstellar ship — all connected by a single fragile ancient text. A book about books, and about hope.