{"product_id":"secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2688","title":"Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2688","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Box — 18 Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eEighteen novels, stories, poems, and anthologies of considerable range — from the cold war carnival of Wu Ming's \u003cem\u003e54\u003c\/em\u003e to the quiet devastation of Jacquelyn Mitchard's first Oprah Book Club pick, from Mervyn Peake's absurdist comedy on the island of Sark to Will Self's gleefully transgressive twin novellas, from Banjo Paterson's foundational Australian verse to a \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e fiction special and an anthology of the best new American voices of 2001. Geoff Page and Nayantara Sahgal sit alongside Raymond Khoury's international thriller, Marianne Fredriksson's Swedish literary fiction, and DBC Pierre's endorsement of a \"brilliant comic elegy for a disappearing world.\" A genuinely eclectic and rewarding collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1. 54 — Wu Ming\u003c\/strong\u003e The Italian collective who gave us \u003cem\u003eQ\u003c\/em\u003e sets their sprawling Cold War novel in 1954 — Cary Grant, a Rimini hotel, a Yugoslavian partisan, and the birth of television culture all somehow converge. Wu Ming writes history as carnival, and there is nothing else quite like it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2. The World from Rough Stones — Malcolm Macdonald\u003c\/strong\u003e A Victorian saga built around the building of the railways — ambition, labour, class, and the transformation of England told through the lives of those who drove the tunnels and laid the tracks. Macdonald writes with the sweep and human detail that the great Victorian novelists brought to industrial history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e3. Remember Me... — Melvyn Bragg\u003c\/strong\u003e Memory, love, and the way the past inhabits the present — Bragg writes with the warmth and psychological depth that have made him one of the most trusted voices in British fiction. A quiet, moving novel from an author at his most personal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e4. Sanctuary — Raymond Khoury\u003c\/strong\u003e From the author of the number one international bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Last Templar\u003c\/em\u003e — an ancient symbol surfaces in the modern world, and the secret it guards has been kept for centuries at considerable cost. Khoury writes historical conspiracy thrillers with real pace and genuine research.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e5. Love in the Country — Rebecca Shaw\u003c\/strong\u003e Warm, community-rooted English rural fiction from the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Village Green Affair\u003c\/em\u003e — Shaw writes about the pleasures and complications of country life with affection and wit, and this is the genre done exactly as it should be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e6. The Deep End of the Ocean — Jacquelyn Mitchard\u003c\/strong\u003e The first novel ever selected for Oprah's Book Club — a child is abducted and found nine years later, and the family must now live with the consequences of recovery as well as loss. Mitchard writes about grief and reunion with unflinching honesty and considerable power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e7. Amber Road — Boyd Anderson\u003c\/strong\u003e As an empire is swept away, a young woman's world is ripped apart — Anderson writes sweeping historical fiction with real atmospheric power and a strong sense of the human cost of the forces that reshape civilisations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e8. Benton's Conviction — Geoff Page\u003c\/strong\u003e Australian poet Geoff Page turns to prose fiction — a crime or moral reckoning at the centre of a novel that brings the precision and economy of verse to the longer form. Quietly gripping and completely distinctive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e9. Mr Pye — Mervyn Peake\u003c\/strong\u003e The author of the Gormenghast trilogy turns to comedy — a prim, evangelical Englishman goes to the island of Sark and starts performing miracles, with increasingly alarming consequences. Peake's imagination is as strange and original here as in his Gothic masterwork, and the result is one of the funniest and most unsettling novels about goodness ever written.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e10. The Man from Snowy River \u0026amp; Other Verses — A.B. 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The Old Country — Sam North\u003c\/strong\u003e \"A brilliant comic elegy for a disappearing world\" — DBC Pierre. North writes about England and Englishness with the combination of affection and devastation that only a true insider can manage. Underread and overdue for discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e13. Timber — John F. Brennan\u003c\/strong\u003e A novel rooted in landscape, labour, and the lives of those who work the land — Brennan writes with a novelist's eye for the texture of physical work and the communities it creates and destroys.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e14. Best New American Voices 2001 — ed. 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