{"product_id":"mischief-mayhem-bargain-book-box","title":"Mischief \u0026 Mayhem Bargain Book Box","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMischief \u0026amp; Mayhem Bargain Book Box\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSome books you read in public and have to explain yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a box of those. Rupert Everett turning every screenplay Hollywood rejected into a short story, which is the most elegant revenge anyone has taken on that town. An office worker who can suddenly see every unsent email about her, including the ones from her manager. A man paid to walk into strangers’ dreams and delete their anxieties, because that’s the only job left. A critic who annihilates a show at the Fringe and then has to drink in the same bars as everyone he destroyed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRichard Osman at his best. Patricia Lockwood writing about her own brain going wrong, which has no business being this funny. Gill Sims surviving another Christmas. And a parody of Prince Harry’s memoir that does not let up for an entire book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eYou will laugh on a tram and someone will look at you. Worth it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGoing to the Dogs\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003ePierre Lemaitre\u003c\/em\u003e | ISBN: 9781914495250 | RRP: $55.00\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Prix Goncourt-winning author of The Great Swindle comes another darkly comic and ruthlessly plotted novel. Lemaitre writes human awfulness with tremendous style and absolutely no sentimentality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWill There Ever Be Another You\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003ePatricia Lockwood\u003c\/em\u003e | ISBN: 9781526689214 | RRP: $32.99\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of No One Is Talking About This — a novel about illness, altered perception, and the strange country of a mind not working properly. Lockwood writes sentences nobody else could, and this is funny and frightening at once.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReasonable People\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003eCaroline Hulse\u003c\/em\u003e | ISBN: 9781409197300 | RRP: $24.99\u003cbr\u003eA sharply funny and deeply relatable novel about two feuding families forced into each other’s company. 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