{"product_id":"secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2736","title":"Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2736","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box — 17 Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA genuinely distinguished international collection anchored by two Nobel laureates and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Alice Munro's \u003cem\u003eToo Much Happiness\u003c\/em\u003e — stories by the 2009 Man Booker International Prize winner — sits alongside Pearl S. Buck's \u003cem\u003eThe Good Earth\u003c\/em\u003e, still as devastating as the day it won the Pulitzer, and Patricia Highsmith's \u003cem\u003eThe Talented Mr Ripley\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the dozen crime novels that have definitively crossed into literary fiction on pure merit. Amitav Ghosh's \u003cem\u003eSea of Poppies\u003c\/em\u003e and Anne Michaels's \u003cem\u003eThe Winter Vault\u003c\/em\u003e represent the Booker world at its most ambitious; Natsume Soseki's \u003cem\u003eBotchan\u003c\/em\u003e — one of the most beloved novels in Japanese literature — is the most unexpected discovery the box has to offer. A box with real range and lasting rewards.\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\u003eSelected Stories\u003c\/em\u003e — Elizabeth Bowen — Selected and introduced by Tessa Hadley, herself one of Britain's finest short story writers. Bowen writes consciousness, atmosphere, and the terror underneath polite surfaces with a precision unmatched in twentieth-century British fiction. Anne Tyler's assessment — \"all the surprise and mystery of the human soul\" — is accurate and earned.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eOn the Roof: A Thatcher's Journey\u003c\/em\u003e — Tom Allan — A memoir about the ancient craft of thatching — the materials, the communities, the dying knowledge — told by a craftsman with an eye for landscape and a gift for quiet observation. The \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e called it \"an excellent, beautifully written memoir.\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Alice Network\u003c\/em\u003e — Kate Quinn — A Reese's Book Club selection and New York Times bestseller following two women — a WWI spy and a 1947 searcher — whose stories converge across decades of secrets. Quinn writes historical fiction with genuine research behind it and the pacing of a thriller.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Waterworks\u003c\/em\u003e — E. L. Doctorow — Set in Gilded Age New York, following a journalist investigating the apparent resurrection of a dead millionaire. Gothic, precise, and deeply concerned with money, power, and the bodies they produce. Doctorow at his most elegant and unsettling.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Talented Mr Ripley\u003c\/em\u003e — Patricia Highsmith — Tom Ripley is one of the most fully realised characters in twentieth-century American fiction — amoral, murderous, and impossible to stop reading about. The \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e called Highsmith \"the #1 greatest crime writer\" and this novel is the proof.\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 — Pulitzer Prize winner, Nobel laureate. Buck's novel of a Chinese peasant farmer across the upheavals of early twentieth-century China is one of the most quietly devastating portrayals of land, labour, and marriage in modern fiction. It has lost none of its power.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eWe Are All Made of Glue\u003c\/em\u003e — Marina Lewycka — From the author of \u003cem\u003eA Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian\u003c\/em\u003e, and every bit as funny. The \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e called it \"gorgeously funny\" and the \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e admitted it \"had me crying with laughter\" — both true, and both understating the comic intelligence at work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe White Woman on the Green Bicycle\u003c\/em\u003e — Monique Roffey — A Trinidad-born British author writing about the Caribbean with the authority of someone who watched its political turbulence from the inside. Longlisted for the Orange Prize, this follows a British couple across forty years in Trinidad as independence and desire reshape everything.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eDamnation Spring\u003c\/em\u003e — Ash Davidson — A debut set in a 1970s Northern California logging community, where a couple find their lives torn apart by questions of land, poison, and survival. Nickolas Butler called it \"a stunning, wondrous book\" and Emily Ruskovich \"the kind of novel I've been craving for ages.\" A debut of rare force.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Unbreakables\u003c\/em\u003e — Lisa Barr — From the New York Times bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eWoman on Fire\u003c\/em\u003e, a novel about female resilience in the face of heartbreak and reinvention. Barr writes crisis and female friendship with the confidence of a novelist who knows exactly what her readers need.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eSea of Poppies\u003c\/em\u003e — Amitav Ghosh — The first novel in Ghosh's Ibis trilogy, set on the eve of the First Opium War, following a disparate group of people brought together on a ship bound for Mauritius. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. One of the most genuinely ambitious novels of the past twenty years.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThis Plague of Souls\u003c\/em\u003e — Mike McCormack — The follow-up to the Booker-longlisted \u003cem\u003eSolar Bones\u003c\/em\u003e, from the writer Anne Enright calls \"one of Ireland's best-loved novelists.\" McCormack's prose has a formal intensity that rewards close reading and accumulates into something quietly devastating.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Winter Vault\u003c\/em\u003e — Anne Michaels — From the author of the Orange Prize-winning \u003cem\u003eFugitive Pieces\u003c\/em\u003e. A novel about the building of the Aswan Dam, the displacement of ancient peoples, and the way loss moves through everything we build and love. Poetic, morally serious, and deeply affecting.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eGravel\u003c\/em\u003e — Peter Goldsworthy — \u003cem\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/em\u003e called Goldsworthy \"the Chekhov of his time and place\" — a comparison that captures his gift for the compressed, illuminating story of ordinary Australian life, written with a clinician's eye for what people reveal when they think no one is watching.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eToo Much Happiness: Stories\u003c\/em\u003e — Alice Munro — Nobel Prize winner. Man Booker International Prize winner. Stories that operate at the highest level of the form, finding in ordinary Canadian lives the full weight of experience, regret, and survival. The title story alone — based on the life of mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya — is among the finest things Munro ever wrote.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eVancouver\u003c\/em\u003e — David Cruise \u0026amp; Alison Griffiths — A Canadian national bestseller following the city of Vancouver across the ambitions and transformations that shaped it. Cruise and Griffiths write popular history with a novelist's instinct for character and a documentary journalist's commitment to getting it right.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eBotchan\u003c\/em\u003e — Natsume Soseki — Written in 1906 and never out of print since. A hot-headed young Tokyo teacher dispatched to a provincial school where hypocrisy and pettiness reign — one of world literature's great comic creations, and the most unexpected discovery in the box.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48785449124059,"sku":"SP2736","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/IMG_0739.jpg?v=1779151155","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2736","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}