{"product_id":"secondhand-australian-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2694","title":"Secondhand Australian Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box  SP2694","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Australian Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box — 21 Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eMartin Boyd's complete Langton Quartet — one of the supreme achievements of Australian fiction, tracing an Anglo-Australian family across generations with a social and psychological precision that earned Boyd consideration for the Nobel Prize — anchors a box rich in Australian literary distinction. Robert Drewe contributes three novels spanning his career from 1979 to 1996; Garry Disher brings two entries in his acclaimed Wyatt crime series; Marjorie Barnard appears in a Virago Modern Classics edition; and Tony Birch, Bruce Dawe, Damien Broderick, and Blanche d'Alpuget round out a box that ranges across the full spectrum of what Australian fiction can do.\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\u003eGarry Disher — \u003cem\u003eCross Kill\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(A Wyatt Novel)\u003c\/em\u003e Wyatt is Disher's career criminal — a professional thief whose code of self-reliance and meticulous planning places him among the most compelling figures in Australian crime fiction. Cold, precise, and addictive.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJulian Davies — \u003cem\u003eThe Boy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Davies is an Australian novelist working at the psychological edge of literary fiction — this early work announcing the unsettling sensibility that would characterise his subsequent writing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCarmel Bird — \u003cem\u003eRed Shoes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Bird is one of Australian fiction's most distinctive voices — dark, witty, formally inventive. Victoria Glendinning's cover praise is apt: \"her imagination and observation give another dimension to dark and grim territory.\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Drewe — \u003cem\u003eThe Drowner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Drewe's 1996 novel — about an irrigation engineer and a circus performer, myth and water and desire — was praised internationally as a work of rare imaginative richness. Among the finest Australian novels of its decade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Drewe — \u003cem\u003eFortune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Drewe's 1986 novel, called \"a compelling treasure\" by \u003cem\u003eTIME\u003c\/em\u003e — spanning Australian history and examining the myths of luck, gold, and national identity with the precision and beauty that marks all his best work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Drewe — \u003cem\u003eA Cry in the Jungle Bar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Drewe's debut novel, set in Manila — a young Australian adrift in South-East Asia, and one of the first Australian novels to look seriously northward rather than back toward Europe. A significant and unjustly neglected work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGarry Disher — \u003cem\u003ePaydirt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(A Wyatt Novel)\u003c\/em\u003e Wyatt returns — and Disher again demonstrates why this series represents the gold standard of Australian crime fiction: tough, psychologically credible, and entirely without sentimentality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGrace Bartram — \u003cem\u003eDarker Grows the Valley\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Australian literary fiction engaging with landscape and psychology in the tradition of the country's most characteristic writing — the valley of the title pressing on the inner lives of those who inhabit it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBlanche d'Alpuget — \u003cem\u003eWinter in Jerusalem\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e d'Alpuget — whose biography of Bob Hawke and novel \u003cem\u003eTurtle Beach\u003c\/em\u003e made her one of Australia's most prominent literary figures — brings her characteristic intelligence about power and desire to the charged landscape of Jerusalem.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDamien Broderick — \u003cem\u003eTransmitters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Broderick is one of Australia's most significant science fiction writers, but Fay Weldon's cover quote — \"like Youngm, Broderick makes us choke while we laugh\" — signals a work crossing between genre and literary fiction, as he frequently and brilliantly did.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJulian Davies — \u003cem\u003eThe Beholder\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Davies's second appearance in this box — \"an hypnotic novel of corrupted affection and compulsive love\" that confirms him as a writer of genuine psychological power.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCarmel Bird — \u003cem\u003eThe White Garden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Bird's second appearance — further evidence of her ability to make Australian domestic spaces feel strange, menacing, and morally complex beneath their surfaces.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarjorie Barnard — \u003cem\u003eThe Persimmon Tree and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (Virago Modern Classics) Barnard — who wrote fiction with Florence Eldershaw as M. Barnard Eldershaw and was one of the key figures of Australian literary modernism — collected in the prestigious Virago Modern Classics series. This is the edition that helped return her work to the readership it deserved.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTony Birch — \u003cem\u003eShadowboxing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Birch's debut short story collection, set in inner-city Melbourne — the streets and lives of working-class communities rendered with warmth, precision, and unflinching honesty. The beginning of a career that has made him one of contemporary Australian literature's most valued voices.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBruce Dawe — \u003cem\u003eOver Here, Harv! and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Dawe is celebrated as one of Australia's greatest poets — \"Homecoming\" alone secures his place — but this story collection is considerably rarer and reveals his gifts for character and social observation working in a different register.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBlanche d'Alpuget — \u003cem\u003eMonkeys in the Dark\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e d'Alpuget's second appearance — a novel of Australian expatriates in South-East Asia that established her as a novelist of serious ambition before \u003cem\u003eTurtle Beach\u003c\/em\u003e consolidated her reputation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMartin Boyd — \u003cem\u003eThe Cardboard Crown\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Langton Quartet, Book 1)\u003c\/em\u003e The first of Boyd's four Langton novels — in which Guy Langton, reading his grandmother Alice's diaries, begins to reconstruct the Anglo-Australian family history that will occupy all four books. The beginning of a complete quartet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMartin Boyd — \u003cem\u003eA Difficult Young Man\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Langton Quartet, Book 2)\u003c\/em\u003e Dominic Langton — volatile, beautiful, and deeply at odds with the worlds on both sides of the world — at the centre of Boyd's social comedy and elegy. The second book of the complete quartet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMartin Boyd — \u003cem\u003eOutbreak of Love\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Langton Quartet, Book 3)\u003c\/em\u003e Melbourne society in the 1890s — and the Langtons navigating love, class, and cultural exile with the irony and tenderness Boyd brought to all his best work. The third book of the complete quartet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMartin Boyd — \u003cem\u003eWhen Blackbirds Sing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Langton Quartet, Book 4)\u003c\/em\u003e The final Langton novel, set during the First World War — Dominic confronting the violence of history and the impossibility of his own position with heartbreaking clarity. The complete quartet is present in this box.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMartin Boyd — \u003cem\u003eLucinda Brayford\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e The fifth and final Boyd in this box — his standalone 1946 novel tracing a woman's life across three generations and two continents, once described as the great Australian novel that Australians forgot to claim. A magnificent companion to the quartet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48759339647195,"sku":"SP2694","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/IMG_0654.jpg?v=1778409972","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-australian-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2694","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}