{"product_id":"secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2719-1","title":"Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2719","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box — 19 Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eTwo Helen Dunmore novels anchor a box that ranges impressively across continents and registers — from Isabel Allende's California epic to Patrick Flanery's post-apartheid South Africa, from Brian Moore's Algeria to Matthew Weiner's disquieting New York suburb, from Carlos Fuentes's century-spanning Mexican fresco to Catherine Chanter's rain-haunted English farm. The AS Byatt, Barbara Trapido, Stephen King, and Khaled Hosseini endorsements scattered across these covers are a reliable guide to the quality within.\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\u003eHelen Dunmore — \u003cem\u003eWith Your Crooked Heart\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Two sisters and the dangerous man who moves between them — Dunmore's psychological precision and her gift for menace and tenderness in equal measure making this one of her most gripping novels. Her first of two appearances in this box.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNafisa Haji — \u003cem\u003eThe Writing on My Forehead\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e A British-Pakistani woman navigating identity, family, and the pull of two worlds — with Khaled Hosseini's warm endorsement: \"a moving meditation on the meaning of family, tradition, and the ties that bind.\" Beautifully constructed, emotionally intelligent fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIsabel Allende — \u003cem\u003eThe Infinite Plan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Allende's most American novel — following a man from a California childhood through Vietnam and back, exploring the myths and broken promises of the American dream with the same epic sweep she brought to the stories of South America.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSue Gee — \u003cem\u003eReading in Bed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \"A storyteller utterly at ease with her craft,\" wrote Penelope Fitzgerald — and this novel about a woman retreating into books following loss shows exactly the quality Fitzgerald admired: warmth, precision, and a deep understanding of how we console ourselves.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCatherine Chanter — \u003cem\u003eThe Well\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e A family moves to a farm blessed with rain while the rest of England bakes in drought. Something is very wrong. Chanter's debut is atmospheric, unsettling, and genuinely original — part psychological thriller, part parable, entirely absorbing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLiza Klaussmann — \u003cem\u003eTigers in Red Weather\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Two families, Martha's Vineyard, the decades from the Second World War to the 1970s — Klaussmann's debut builds its American story with the architectural confidence of a writer twice her age, and the title's Stevens-inflected elegance is matched by what's inside.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Smither — \u003cem\u003eThe Sea Between Us\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Smither is one of New Zealand's most distinguished poets and novelists — her prose carrying the same precision and emotional compression as her verse. A quietly powerful piece of literary fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHelen Dunmore — \u003cem\u003eMourning Ruby\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Dunmore's novel about the loss of a child and the grief that follows — described as \"heartbreaking, luminous and profound\" by the \u003cem\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e. Among her most emotionally demanding and beautifully achieved works.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSarah Hopkins — \u003cem\u003eThe Crimes of Billy Fish\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Hopkins is an Australian novelist and this ABC Fiction title takes a sharp and unsentimental look at the crimes — large and small, committed and committed against — that shape the lives of ordinary people.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePatrick Flanery — \u003cem\u003eAbsolution\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Three major reviews on the cover speak for themselves: \"explosively powerful... exceptional\" (\u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e); \"consistently first class\" (\u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e); \"wonderfully constructed\" (AS Byatt). A literary thriller about a South African author and the biographer trying to understand her — set in the complicated moral terrain of post-apartheid South Africa. A remarkable debut.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Mamet — \u003cem\u003eThe Village\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e The celebrated playwright of \u003cem\u003eGlengarry Glen Ross\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAmerican Buffalo\u003c\/em\u003e turns to fiction — a literary novel set in a small New England community, carrying all of Mamet's ear for language and his preoccupation with masculinity, work, and moral compromise.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Alexander — \u003cem\u003eRasputin's Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Alexander — author of the acclaimed \u003cem\u003eThe Kitchen Boy\u003c\/em\u003e, about the murder of the Romanovs — returns to the same historical world here, this time through the eyes of Rasputin's daughter as she watches events spiral toward catastrophe.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOlivia Glazebrook — \u003cem\u003eThe Trouble with Alice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \"Quite deliciously funny and sad,\" wrote Barbara Trapido — a precision-calibrated endorsement for a novel about a woman whose relationship to reality is more complicated than anyone around her realises. Sharp, dark, and very readable.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCarlos Fuentes — \u003cem\u003eThe Years with Laura Diaz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Fuentes was one of the supreme figures of Latin American literature, and this sweeping novel — following a Mexican woman from the Revolution through to the end of the twentieth century — is one of his most ambitious works. \"Laura Diaz is destined to become as memorable as Madame Bovary,\" wrote the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJoanna Trollope — \u003cem\u003eOther People's Children\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Trollope at her most diagnostically precise — examining the complex loyalties, resentments, and unexpected tenderness of stepfamily life with the social intelligence and compassionate realism that has made her one of Britain's most trusted novelists.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTobias Hill — \u003cem\u003eThe Hidden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Hill — poet and novelist — brings his literary sensibility to an archaeological thriller set in Greece: the layers of the past literally and figuratively present as his protagonist digs into both the earth and a buried mystery.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrian Moore — \u003cem\u003eThe Magician's Wife\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Moore was one of the great Irish-Canadian novelists — \u003cem\u003eThe Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlack Robe\u003c\/em\u003e — and this late masterpiece follows a French conjuror's wife into Napoleon III's Algeria, where her husband's tricks are to be deployed as political theatre. Precise, tense, and morally serious.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMatthew Weiner — \u003cem\u003eHeather, the Totality\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e The creator of \u003cem\u003eMad Men\u003c\/em\u003e turns to fiction with this brief, intense, finely calibrated novel about a family and the threat that encircles them. Stephen King's endorsement — \"one of the best of the best... you can't ask for more\" — is not given lightly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStephen Dobyns — \u003cem\u003eThe Burn Palace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e A small Rhode Island town, a series of disturbing events, and the darkness gathering beneath the ordinary surface of community life. Dobyns is a master of American literary crime fiction and this is among his most accomplished works — King's enthusiasm entirely earned.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48760567267547,"sku":"SP2719","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/IMG_0663.jpg?v=1778453579","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2719-1","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}