Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2744

A well-curated literary fiction box with strong Australian and British representation. Helen Fielding, Fay Weldon, Marina Lewycka, Penelope Lively, and John Mortimer anchor the British thread, while two Text Classics editions — Shane Maloney's Stiff and Eleanor Spence's Lillipilly Hill — provide the Australian counterweight, alongside Ariella Van Luyn and DBC Pierre. Lilian Nattel, Jane Smiley, and Caro Fraser round out an accomplished and varied box.

1. Masquerade — Nicholas Griffin — A taut thriller of art, forgery, and deception from the British-American author; a heist narrative steeped in artifice and the shadowy world of the art market.
2. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination — Helen Fielding — A comic spy thriller from the author of Bridget Jones; a fashion journalist suspects a charming stranger of being a terrorist and finds herself drawn into a real conspiracy.
3. Stiff — Shane Maloney — First in the Murray Whelan series, Text Classics edition; a Labor Party minder in Melbourne stumbles into murder in this witty, politically astute Australian crime fiction debut.
4. Author, Author — David Lodge — A biographical novel from the British literary critic and novelist; Lodge imagines the final years of Henry James as he watches his friend du Maurier achieve popular success he himself was denied.
5. Lillipilly Hill — Eleanor Spence — A beloved mid-century Australian classic in the Text Classics edition; a city family relocates to the countryside and a child must find her footing in an unfamiliar world.
6. The Housekeeper — Melanie Wallace — An atmospheric novel of isolation and unease; a woman arrives at a remote location and must navigate the troubled history of the house and its inhabitants.
7. Worst Fears — Fay Weldon — A sharp, darkly comic novel from the celebrated British author; a woman discovers her husband has died in flagrante and begins uncovering the many lies he had been living.
8. We Are All Made of Glue — Marina Lewycka — From the author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian; a warm, tragicomic novel in which a woman's crumbling marriage collides with her campaign to save an elderly Jewish neighbour's house.
9. Treading Air — Ariella Van Luyn — An Australian literary novel from one of the country's emerging voices; a story spanning generations and tracing the consequences of violence across time and place.
10. Perfect Happiness — Penelope Lively — A quiet, perceptive novel from the Booker Prize-winning author; a widow rebuilds herself and her understanding of her marriage as grief uncovers truths she had not seen.
11. The River Midnight — Lilian Nattel — A richly imagined novel set in a Jewish shtetl in late 19th-century Poland; women's lives, secrets, and folklore interweave in a community on the edge of modernity.
12. Titmuss Regained — John Mortimer — The sequel to Paradise Postponed; scheming Conservative MP Leslie Titmuss returns as a cabinet minister in Mortimer's sharp English political comedy.
13. Other People's Children — Joanna Trollope — A perceptive examination of the modern blended family; step-parents, stepchildren, and the complicated loyalties that form and fracture when divorce reorders a family.
14. Ludmila's Broken English — DBC Pierre — From the Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little; a darkly comic, linguistically inventive novel following twin brothers in England and a young woman in post-Soviet Eastern Europe whose lives converge.
15. The Island of Four Rivers — Christopher Morgan — A novel set around the confluence of rivers, tracing the lives of those bound to a particular landscape and its layered history.
16. Early Warning — Jane Smiley — The second novel in the Last Hundred Years trilogy from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author; the Langdon family moves through a turbulent mid-20th century America.
17. An Immoral Code — Caro Fraser — A legal thriller from the author of the Caper Court series; financial corruption and personal betrayal unfold in the world of London law and high finance.