{"product_id":"secondhand-australian-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2701","title":"Secondhand Australian Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2701","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Australian Fiction Bargain Book Box — 18 Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eMichelle de Kretser's \u003cem\u003eThe Life to Come\u003c\/em\u003e — from the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eQuestions of Travel\u003c\/em\u003e — leads a box strong in contemporary Australian literary fiction, with two Rodney Hall novels representing one of the country's most significant novelists, Jack Hibberd moving from theatre to prose, and Paul D. Carter's Readings Prize-winning debut sitting alongside three Tess Evans novels, two Anson Cameron comedies, and a generous spread of popular and literary Australian women's fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFran Cusworth — \u003cem\u003eThe Love Child\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Cusworth's fiction works the territory of domestic life and the decisions that redefine it — this novel about a child and the choices surrounding her written with the warmth and social intelligence that characterise her best work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRodney Hall — \u003cem\u003eThe Island in the Mind\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Hall is one of the great figures of Australian literature — winner of two Miles Franklin Awards, author of the Yandilli Trilogy and many other extraordinary works. This novel shows his characteristic preoccupation with history, identity, and the fragility of the self under pressure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMandy Sayer — \u003cem\u003e15 Kinds of Desire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Sayer grew up in the world of jazz and itinerant performance — her father a musician, her childhood a series of stages and boarding houses — and brought that world to vivid life in her acclaimed memoirs. This collection of fiction extends that imaginative territory in fifteen distinct and surprising directions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMichelle de Kretser — \u003cem\u003eThe Life to Come\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e De Kretser — whose \u003cem\u003eQuestions of Travel\u003c\/em\u003e won the Miles Franklin Award — here constructs a linked sequence of narratives examining how people live now: the stories we tell ourselves, the distances we maintain, and what happens when those distances collapse. Formally inventive, morally serious, and utterly absorbing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTess Evans — \u003cem\u003eBook of Lost Threads\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e In the small town of Opportunity, four unconnected people discover what the title suggests — that the threads of lives can be picked up and rewoven. Evans's debut novel, and the beginning of a devoted Australian readership.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAnson Cameron — \u003cem\u003eStealing Picasso\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Cameron's fiction fizzes with energy and comic irreverence — his prose described by the \u003cem\u003eAdelaide Advertiser\u003c\/em\u003e as crackling with \"energy and humour.\" A novel about art, theft, and the Australian capacity for audacious improvisation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDerek Hansen — \u003cem\u003ePerfect Couple\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Hansen — author of the bestselling \u003cem\u003eSole Survivor\u003c\/em\u003e — brings his eye for the gap between public performance and private reality to a novel about a couple whose apparent perfection conceals rather more than their neighbours suspect.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePatricia Shaw — \u003cem\u003eWhere the Willows Weep\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Shaw was one of Australia's most popular writers of historical saga fiction — sweeping, emotionally engaged, and firmly planted in Australian landscape and history. This is her form at full stretch.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLoubna Haikal — \u003cem\u003eSeducing Mr Maclean\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \"A beguiling novel of beclaws, belly dancing and Lebanese love\" — Haikal brings multicultural Australia into comic and romantic fiction with a lightness of touch and a sharp eye for the comedy of cultural collision.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJack Hibberd — \u003cem\u003eThe Life of Riley\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Hibberd is one of the architects of Australian theatre — \u003cem\u003eDimboola\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Stretch of the Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e — and this prose work carries the same linguistic exuberance and dark comedy that made his plays essential. A rare sighting of the playwright on the page.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFran Cusworth — \u003cem\u003eHopetoun Wives\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Cusworth's second appearance — a novel about women in a small community finding each other and, through that finding, themselves. Her characteristic warmth and social observation working in a more explicitly communal register.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTess Evans — \u003cem\u003eMercy Street\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e The second Evans in this box — \"a tender, sweet and funny novel about mistakes, accidental families, and the transformative power of kindness.\" Evans working confidently in the territory her debut established.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaul D. Carter — \u003cem\u003eEleven Seasons\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(Readings Literary Prize Winner)\u003c\/em\u003e Carter's debut novel about Australian Rules football — but really about the obsession, loyalty, and grief that the game channels for those who love it. Winner of the Readings Literary Prize, praised as \"friendly, a surprise at heart.\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAnson Cameron — \u003cem\u003eLies I Told About a Girl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Cameron's second appearance — a boarding school, a prison, a storyteller, and a girl at the centre of it all. His characteristic ability to find dark comedy in Australian social mythology fully deployed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIlsa Evans — \u003cem\u003eEach Way Bet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Evans — who appeared four times in the previous box — returns with another instalment of her comic domestic fiction. Life's a gamble, and Evans plays the odds with her usual warmth and timing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRodney Hall — \u003cem\u003eLove Without Hope\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Hall's second novel in this box — published in 1995, it continues his exploration of desire, history, and the human capacity for both destruction and grace. Two Hall novels in one box is a genuine find for readers coming to him for the first time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eY.A. Erskine — \u003cem\u003eThe Brotherhood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e One dead cop, one small island, and an impact that ripples through the Tasmanian police force and the community it serves. Erskine's crime fiction earns its \"stellar read\" endorsement — precise, morally serious, and atmospherically convincing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTess Evans — \u003cem\u003eThe Memory Tree\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e The third and final Evans in this box — her continuing exploration of community, memory, and the unexpected ways people find their way back to each other. 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