{"product_id":"secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2710","title":"Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2710","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand 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]\"\u003eEighteen novels drawing from British, American, Australian, Scandinavian, Belgian, Albanian, Ukrainian, and South African literary traditions — the kind of international range that makes a box genuinely exciting to browse. From Ian McEwan's single-day London panorama to Kadare's Albanian political fable, from Wideman's furious Philadelphia elegy to Kurkov's characteristically deadpan Ukrainian time-travel, this is literary fiction with serious global ambition.\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\u003eMelvyn Bragg — \u003cem\u003eThe Soldier's Return\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Joe Richardson comes home from Burma to postwar Cumbria — and finds that both he and the world he left behind have changed beyond easy recognition. The opening novel in Bragg's quietly distinguished sequence about working-class English life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIan McEwan — \u003cem\u003eSaturday\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e A single Saturday in the life of London neurosurgeon Henry Perowne — the day of the anti-Iraq War march, February 2003 — becomes the frame for an examination of liberal professional life, political anxiety, and the sudden intrusion of violence into a carefully ordered existence. McEwan at his most politically engaged.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMichelle Aung Thin — \u003cem\u003eThe Monsoon Bride\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \"Evokes a viscerally beautiful world and a heady journey — a wonderful read,\" wrote Alice Pung. A novel of Burma, family, and the impossible distances — geographical and emotional — that history creates between people.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Gilkerson — \u003cem\u003eUltimate Voyage: A Book of Five Mariners\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Five great maritime voyages, five sailors who pushed past the edges of the known world — a richly illustrated celebration of the age of sail and the extraordinary human compulsion to go further.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEugenia Jenny Williams — \u003cem\u003eJenny's Coffee House: After Yemni\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e A novel of community, continuity, and the kinds of belonging that a particular place — a coffee house, a gathering point — can create and sustain across lives and losses.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGabe Habash — \u003cem\u003eStephen Florida\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e A college wrestler's obsessive pursuit of a national championship — Hanya Yanagihara called it \"a shape-shifter of a book, both a deep dive into the monstrous and luminous of the American ideal.\" A cult debut of considerable intensity and originality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Mortimer — \u003cem\u003eParadise Postponed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e The creator of Rumpole of the Bailey turns to the English village novel and finds it full of disappointment, hypocrisy, and dark comedy. An English eccentric's life, examined across decades, as the postwar settlement slowly unravels.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVivienne Kelly — \u003cem\u003eThe Starlings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e An Australian literary novel asking whether every story can have a happy ending — Kelly writing with the warmth and social intelligence that characterises the best of Australian domestic fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Raleigh — \u003cem\u003eIn the Castle of the Flynns\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e A coming-of-age novel set in 1950s Chicago — a boy raised by his dead mother's family after his father disappears into grief. \"An amazing book — a broiler of laughter, love and loss.\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Sean Greer — \u003cem\u003eThe Confessions of Max Tivoli\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Max Tivoli is born with the body of an old man and grows physically younger as the years pass — and falls in love three times, each time unable to hold on. A heartbreaking and formally inventive novel about time, desire, and what it means to live in the wrong direction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMaggie Gee — \u003cem\u003eMy Driver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e A British woman in Uganda, her Ugandan driver, and the complicated negotiations of a post-colonial friendship — Doris Lessing's cover praise (\"worldly, witty, enjoyable, impressive\") precisely right for a novel of considerable intelligence and good faith.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMadeleine Bourdouxhe — \u003cem\u003eMarie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Bourdouxhe's 1943 Belgian novel — rediscovered, translated, and recognised as a feminist classic — follows a working-class Brussels woman through the small griefs and fierce inner life that conventional society renders invisible. Brief, intense, and unforgettable.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLene Kaaberbøl \u0026amp; Agnete Friis — \u003cem\u003eThe Boy in the Suitcase\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e The first Nina Borg thriller — a Danish crime novel of considerable moral seriousness, in which a Red Cross nurse discovers a living child abandoned in a suitcase at Copenhagen Central Station. The number-one bestselling thriller for a reason.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBreyten Breytenbach — \u003cem\u003eMemory of Snow and of Dust\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Breytenbach — South African poet, painter, and political prisoner who spent years in jail for his anti-apartheid activities — brings all of that experience to bear on this novel: lyrical, furious, and written from a position of genuine moral authority.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Ryan — \u003cem\u003eAfter Midnight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Based on a true story — a novel of motorbike racing, heroism, and a war that refuses to end. Ryan writes WWII historical fiction with a particular feel for the period's physical texture and moral complexity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAndrey Kurkov — \u003cem\u003eThe Gardener from Ochakov\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Kurkov — the Ukrainian master of deadpan black comedy, creator of \u003cem\u003eDeath and the Penguin\u003c\/em\u003e — sends his protagonist between contemporary Ukraine and the Soviet 1950s in a time-travel novel that is, as the cover says, \"blackly comic\" and entirely his own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIsmail Kadare — \u003cem\u003eThe Successor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(Winner, Inaugural Man Booker International Prize 2005)\u003c\/em\u003e In communist Albania, the man designated as Enver Hoxha's successor is found dead — suicide, or murder? Kadare, Albania's greatest writer, uses the mystery to examine the mechanisms of totalitarian power with his characteristic oblique brilliance. Winner of the first Man Booker International Prize.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Edgar Wideman — \u003cem\u003ePhiladelphia Fire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(Canons)\u003c\/em\u003e In 1985 Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a residential building occupied by the MOVE organisation, killing eleven people and destroying a city block. Wideman's novel — \"passionate, angry, and formally fascinating\" — is the literary reckoning that event demanded: one of the essential American novels of its era.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48760594890971,"sku":"SP2710","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/IMG_0667.jpg?v=1778455648","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2710","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}