{"product_id":"secondhand-australian-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2706","title":"Secondhand Australian Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2706","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Australian Literary 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]\"\u003eThe headline story of this box is Peter Goldsworthy — five titles including \u003cem\u003eMaestro\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the most celebrated Australian novels of the twentieth century and a staple of school and university curricula for decades. Three John Morrison titles add further depth from a different generation of Australian writing, while Miles Franklin herself — the writer behind the award — is represented with \u003cem\u003eOn Dearborn Street\u003c\/em\u003e. Ashley Hay, Olga Masters, David Foster, and Andrea Goldsmith round out a collection of genuine literary seriousness.\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\u003eInvented Lives — Andrea Goldsmith.\u003c\/strong\u003e Goldsmith is one of Australia's most consistently underrated literary novelists, and \u003cem\u003eInvented Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is characteristic of her intelligence and emotional ambition — a book about the stories we tell about ourselves and others, and what happens when those stories are finally exposed. Warmly praised and deserving of far wider readership.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Lone Child — Anna George.\u003c\/strong\u003e Praised as \"absolutely arresting\" by Zoë Morrison, \"absorbing and poignant\" by Sara Foster, and \"sensitive and haunting\" by Wendy James — three of Australia's finest literary voices. George's debut is a psychological study of a woman whose life fractures around loss and longing, written with considerable skill and intensity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThree Dog Night — Peter Goldsworthy.\u003c\/strong\u003e From the author of \u003cem\u003eMaestro\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHonk If You Are Jesus\u003c\/em\u003e, this novel follows a lawyer who retreats to the remote country — and the dark discoveries that follow. Goldsworthy's prose is spare, muscular, and quietly devastating, and \u003cem\u003eThree Dog Night\u003c\/em\u003e is one of his most atmospheric achievements.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWinter Traffic — Stephen Greenall.\u003c\/strong\u003e Matthew Condon called this \"tough but lyrical... utterly original in every respect\" — high praise from one of Australia's best journalists and novelists. Greenall writes with a distinctive, restless intelligence about contemporary life and the ways people drift toward and away from each other.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Railwayman's Wife — Ashley Hay.\u003c\/strong\u003e Gail Jones — author of \u003cem\u003eFive Bells\u003c\/em\u003e and one of Australia's finest literary novelists — praised this as \"a tender portrait of a marriage and the poetry and grief it contains. A beautiful, dreamy, melancholic book.\" Set in a New South Wales coastal town in the postwar years, following a widow and the two poets who orbit her life, it is one of the loveliest Australian novels of recent decades.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Morrison: Selected Stories\u003c\/strong\u003e (UQP Australian Fiction series). Morrison was one of the great Australian short story writers of the twentieth century — a working-class voice who wrote about wharfies, labourers, and ordinary Australians with dignity, precision, and genuine literary craft. This UQP selection gathers the best of his work and is the ideal introduction to a writer who deserves to be better known.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCurrawalli Street — Christopher Morgan.\u003c\/strong\u003e \"A powerful and moving dance through time\" — a novel rooted in the life of a single street across generations, following the families who pass through it and the way place accumulates memory and meaning. Australian domestic fiction at its most attentive.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOn Dearborn Street — Miles Franklin.\u003c\/strong\u003e Not the award, but the woman behind it — Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, whose \u003cem\u003eMy Brilliant Career\u003c\/em\u003e made her famous. \u003cem\u003eOn Dearborn Street\u003c\/em\u003e is her Chicago novel, drawing on her years in America, and offers a fascinating window into a side of Franklin's life and imagination that Australian readers rarely encounter.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWish: A Biologically Engineered Love Story — Peter Goldsworthy.\u003c\/strong\u003e One of Goldsworthy's most distinctive and provocative works — a genetically engineered being, a love story, and a sustained meditation on what it means to be human. Goldsworthy is one of the very few Australian writers who can make science and philosophy central to literary fiction without either dumbing down or losing the reader.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLittle Deaths — Peter Goldsworthy.\u003c\/strong\u003e Short stories from Goldsworthy — a form he excels in, with his precision and economy perfectly suited to the compressed world of the short story. \"By the author of Honk If You Are Jesus and Maestro\" — and every story shows why those books matter.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHitting the Wall — David Foster.\u003c\/strong\u003e Foster is one of the most ambitious and demanding figures in Australian literature — a writer of enormous range and intellectual seriousness — and \u003cem\u003eHitting the Wall\u003c\/em\u003e captures his capacity to find depth in apparently ordinary Australian experience. Essential for readers interested in the more experimental reaches of Australian fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Home Girls — Olga Masters.\u003c\/strong\u003e Masters arrived late to fiction — she was in her fifties before her first collection was published — and wrote with the earned authority of a woman who had spent decades watching Australian domestic life closely. \u003cem\u003eThe Home Girls\u003c\/em\u003e is her finest collection: stories of women navigating marriages, children, and small towns with a clear-eyed compassion that recalls Alice Munro. A UQP classic.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWalking the Dog — Marian Eldridge\u003c\/strong\u003e (UQP). Eldridge is one of the quieter but more accomplished voices in Australian women's fiction — her short stories and novellas observe the texture of ordinary lives with a precision and warmth that rewards close reading. Another excellent UQP publication.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThis Freedom: Short Stories — John Morrison\u003c\/strong\u003e (Penguin). A second Morrison collection — further evidence of why he was so admired. His working-class world is rendered without sentimentality and without condescension, and his gift for the telling detail and the perfectly weighted ending makes every story linger. Together with the UQP Selected Stories, this gives readers a substantial Morrison collection.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNorth Wind — John Morrison\u003c\/strong\u003e (Penguin). Stephen Murray-Smith wrote that \"Morrison draws a world, a 'respectable world', in delicate and damning touches\" — and \u003cem\u003eNorth Wind\u003c\/em\u003e is a fine example of that gift. A third Morrison title in the box makes this an extraordinary resource for anyone wanting to understand his place in Australian literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMagpie — Peter Goldsworthy.\u003c\/strong\u003e A fourth Goldsworthy title — his fiction is so consistently achieved that each new work rewards attention. \u003cem\u003eMagpie\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates the range that has made him one of Australia's most versatile and durable literary novelists across five decades of writing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMaestro — Peter Goldsworthy.\u003c\/strong\u003e The novel that made Goldsworthy's reputation and has never left it. The story of Paul Crabbe, a teenage piano prodigy in 1960s Darwin, and his relationship with the mysterious Eduard Keller — a Viennese pianist carrying a devastating history — is one of the great Australian coming-of-age novels. Taught in schools and universities across the country, it is a book that repays reading at any age. To have five Goldsworthy titles in a single box, anchored by \u003cem\u003eMaestro\u003c\/em\u003e, is a genuine find.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePassing Remarks — Helen Hodgman.\u003c\/strong\u003e Hodgman is one of Australian fiction's sharper and more underappreciated satirical voices, and \u003cem\u003ePassing Remarks\u003c\/em\u003e carries her characteristic dark wit and social observation. Essential for readers interested in the more sardonic edges of Australian women's fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48760611012827,"sku":null,"price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/IMG_0671.jpg?v=1778457007","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-australian-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2706","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}