{"product_id":"secondhand-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2724","title":"Secondhand Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2724","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003e\u003cb data-index-in-node=\"0\" data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003eSecondhand Fiction Bargain Book Box\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSarah Bernstein's \u003cem\u003eStudy for Obedience\u003c\/em\u003e — Booker Prize shortlisted, its author named to Granta's Best of Young British Novelists — is the most talked-about title here, and Ken Liu's \u003cem\u003eThe Paper Menagerie\u003c\/em\u003e the most decorated: stories that won the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards simultaneously, a feat never achieved before or since. Patrick White's \u003cem\u003eA Fringe of Leaves\u003c\/em\u003e and Thea Astley's \u003cem\u003eThe Slow Natives\u003c\/em\u003e give the box genuine Nobel and Miles Franklin weight. Eduardo Fernando Varela's \u003cem\u003ePatagonia: Route 203\u003c\/em\u003e brings South American fiction rarely seen in secondhand boxes, and W.S. Maugham's \u003cem\u003eThe Casuarina Tree\u003c\/em\u003e the colonial world of Southeast Asia rendered with his characteristic cold elegance. A genuinely eclectic box with real depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\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\u003cem\u003eThe Lemon Grove\u003c\/em\u003e — Helen Walsh — A sensuous and psychologically taut novel of forbidden desire unfolding in Mallorca — a woman, her partner's daughter, and an attraction that threatens everything. Marie Claire called it \"unputdownable\" and the \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e \"taut and lyrical, steamy, tender and full of insight.\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Casuarina Tree\u003c\/em\u003e — W.S. Maugham — Oxford in Asia Paperbacks. This collection of stories set in British Malaya and Borneo shows Maugham at his most characteristic — the colonial world rendered with cool precision, moral complexity, and an unflinching eye for the hypocrisies of expatriate life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Crimson Ribbon\u003c\/em\u003e — Katherine Clements — A historical novel set during the English Civil War, praised by Alison Weir as \"impressive and inspirational\" and by Susannah Dunn as \"the vibrant new voice of historical fiction.\" Clements writes the period with atmospheric authority and genuine feeling for her characters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Evening of the Holiday\u003c\/em\u003e — Shirley Hazzard — This novella of an Italian love affair is brief, precise, and written with a beauty that makes the loss it describes genuinely painful. Hazzard handles the English language with the care of someone who knows exactly how much it can bear.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eLateshows\u003c\/em\u003e — Frank Moorhouse — Picador. Clive James, Donald Horne, and the \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e all called Moorhouse Australia's funniest writer — which understates what he actually does. This collection of interconnected stories is satirical, formally inventive, and deeply concerned with Australian identity in ways that are still uncomfortably recognisable.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Good Earth\u003c\/em\u003e — Pearl S. Buck — This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a Chinese peasant farmer and his wife across the upheavals of early twentieth-century China remains as quietly devastating as it ever was. Buck earned her Nobel Prize largely on its strength.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Paper Menagerie and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e — Ken Liu — This collection made history by winning the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards simultaneously for its title story — something no writer had achieved before. Liu writes science fiction and fantasy with a literary intelligence and emotional depth that transcends genre entirely. The most formally distinguished title in this box.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eStudy for Obedience\u003c\/em\u003e — Sarah Bernstein — Granta Best of Young British Novelists 2023, Booker Prize shortlisted. This is a compressed, formally precise, deeply unsettling novel about a woman who moves to her brother's remote country and finds herself blamed for everything that follows. Bernstein writes with the controlled intensity of someone who has measured every word.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eLux the Poet\u003c\/em\u003e — Martin Millar — From the author of \u003cem\u003eLonely Werewolf Girl\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Good Fairies of New York\u003c\/em\u003e, this earlier novel follows a young poet surviving on the margins of London. Millar writes outsider life with warmth, wit, and a complete absence of condescension.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Lost Sister\u003c\/em\u003e — Andrea Gunraj — A novel about the harms done to women that too many are forced to carry — Julia Phillips, author of \u003cem\u003eDisappearing Earth\u003c\/em\u003e, wrote that it \"will break your heart and give you hope to heal.\" Gunraj writes with both moral urgency and genuine narrative skill.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Slow Natives\u003c\/em\u003e — Thea Astley — Sun Books. Winner of both the Miles Franklin and the Moomba Awards for Australian Literature. This is Astley examining suburban Brisbane family life with the precision of a surgeon and the compassion of someone who knows exactly how much ordinary people suffer in silence.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Man Who Smiled\u003c\/em\u003e — Henning Mankell — A Wallander thriller in which the detective is drawn back from retirement to investigate the death of a friend. The \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e called it \"absorbing, chilling and gripping with evil atmosphere\" — Mankell writes the Swedish winter and human darkness with equal authority.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Paper Chase\u003c\/em\u003e — Hal Porter — UQP. Porter is one of Australian literature's most stylistically distinctive voices — elaborate, dense, and deeply idiosyncratic — and this novel showcases both his gifts and his refusal to make anything easy for the reader. Demanding and rewarding in equal measure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Roaring Nineties\u003c\/em\u003e — Katharine Susannah Prichard — Virago Modern Classics. This is the second volume of Prichard's goldfields trilogy, set in the Western Australian gold rush of the 1890s. Prichard is one of the great undeservedly neglected figures in Australian literary history, and the Virago editions are the best way back to her.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eIn the Quiet\u003c\/em\u003e — Eliza Henry-Jones — Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award and the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. This is a novel narrated by a woman watching her family grieve her from beyond death — tender, quietly devastating, and written with an emotional precision the \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e called \"soothing\" in the best possible sense.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePatagonia: Route 203\u003c\/em\u003e — Eduardo Fernando Varela, translated by Peter Bush — Winner of the Premio Casa de las Américas. \u003cem\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/em\u003e compared it to a Coen Brothers film and \u003cem\u003eTélérama\u003c\/em\u003e called it \"mysterious and enchanting\" — this Argentine novel of the Patagonian road is one of the more genuinely unexpected finds in the current range of boxes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eA Fringe of Leaves\u003c\/em\u003e — Patrick White — This is White's historical novel based on the true story of Eliza Fraser, shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and living with Aboriginal people before her rescue — a meditation on civilisation, identity, and what is stripped away when survival is all that remains. A Nobel Prize winner at the height of his powers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Hound of the Baskervilles\u003c\/em\u003e — Arthur Conan Doyle — Puffin Classics. This remains as perfectly constructed as the day it was published — a family curse, a spectral hound on the Dartmoor moors, and Holmes at his most theatrically brilliant.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48799035064539,"sku":"SP2724","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/IMG_0758.jpg?v=1779402152","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2724","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}