Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2783

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A thoughtful literary fiction box with international range. Penelope Lively's The Road to Lichfield and DBC Pierre's Lights Out in Wonderland are the headline names, joined by Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I Am, Sherman Alexie's War Dances, Robert Dessaix on Corfu, and Brian Castro's Drift. Australian voices include Mudrooroo's Wild Cat Falling — the first novel published by an Indigenous Australian author — alongside Siân Busby's quietly devastating A Commonplace Killing.

  1. Becoming Madame Mao — Anchee Min — A lyrical imagining of Madame Mao's inner life; from peasant girl to China's most feared woman.
  2. The Road to Lichfield — Penelope Lively — A woman discovers her dying father's secret life; Booker-shortlisted and among Lively's finest.
  3. [Wayson Choy title — see photo] — Canadian-Chinese author; known for The Jade Peony and All That Matters.
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  5. A Time of Angels — Patricia Schonstein — South African literary fiction set during the turbulent apartheid era.
  6. Bits of String — Amanda MacAndrew — Australian literary fiction.
  7. Chance to See Egypt — Sandra Scofield — A quietly powerful American novel about a woman taking stock of her life.
  8. Here I Am — Jonathan Safran Foer — A sprawling, ambitious novel about an American Jewish family in crisis; Foer's long-awaited return.
  9. A Commonplace Killing — Siân Busby — A literary crime novel set in 1946 London; a detective and a woman's body in a bomb site.
  10. Drift — Brian Castro — Australian; a meditation on identity and dislocation by one of Australia's most literary novelists.
  11. Oystercatchers - Susan Fletcher .
  12. Wild Cat Falling — Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson) — Published in 1965, the first novel published by an Indigenous Australian author; a landmark of Australian literature.
  13. Corfu — Robert Dessaix — Australian essayist and memoirist; a meditation on the Greek island and the literary figures who loved it.
  14. Lights Out in Wonderland — DBC Pierre — Darkly comic and wildly inventive; from the Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little.
  15. The Iron Woman — Ted Hughes — The long-awaited sequel to The Iron Man; an eco-fable that works for adults as well as children.
  16. The Monsters of Gramercy Park — Danny Leigh — A sharp, stylish New York literary thriller.
  17. War Dances — Sherman Alexie — Linked stories and poems from the celebrated Spokane/Coeur d'Alene author.
  18. Ballistics — D.W. Wilson — Canadian short fiction; quietly observed stories of longing and loss in the interior of British Columbia.
  19. Tom Bedlam — George Hagen — A sprawling Victorian melodrama; an orphan's picaresque journey through the underbelly of London.
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A thoughtful literary fiction box with international range. Penelope Lively's The Road to Lichfield and DBC Pierre's Lights Out in Wonderland are the headline names, joined by Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I Am, Sherman Alexie's War Dances, Robert Dessaix on Corfu, and Brian Castro's Drift. Australian voices include Mudrooroo's Wild Cat Falling — the first novel published by an Indigenous Australian author — alongside Siân Busby's quietly devastating A Commonplace Killing.

  1. Becoming Madame Mao — Anchee Min — A lyrical imagining of Madame Mao's inner life; from peasant girl to China's most feared woman.
  2. The Road to Lichfield — Penelope Lively — A woman discovers her dying father's secret life; Booker-shortlisted and among Lively's finest.
  3. [Wayson Choy title — see photo] — Canadian-Chinese author; known for The Jade Peony and All That Matters.
  4. [title — see photo]
  5. A Time of Angels — Patricia Schonstein — South African literary fiction set during the turbulent apartheid era.
  6. Bits of String — Amanda MacAndrew — Australian literary fiction.
  7. Chance to See Egypt — Sandra Scofield — A quietly powerful American novel about a woman taking stock of her life.
  8. Here I Am — Jonathan Safran Foer — A sprawling, ambitious novel about an American Jewish family in crisis; Foer's long-awaited return.
  9. A Commonplace Killing — Siân Busby — A literary crime novel set in 1946 London; a detective and a woman's body in a bomb site.
  10. Drift — Brian Castro — Australian; a meditation on identity and dislocation by one of Australia's most literary novelists.
  11. Oystercatchers - Susan Fletcher .
  12. Wild Cat Falling — Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson) — Published in 1965, the first novel published by an Indigenous Australian author; a landmark of Australian literature.
  13. Corfu — Robert Dessaix — Australian essayist and memoirist; a meditation on the Greek island and the literary figures who loved it.
  14. Lights Out in Wonderland — DBC Pierre — Darkly comic and wildly inventive; from the Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little.
  15. The Iron Woman — Ted Hughes — The long-awaited sequel to The Iron Man; an eco-fable that works for adults as well as children.
  16. The Monsters of Gramercy Park — Danny Leigh — A sharp, stylish New York literary thriller.
  17. War Dances — Sherman Alexie — Linked stories and poems from the celebrated Spokane/Coeur d'Alene author.
  18. Ballistics — D.W. Wilson — Canadian short fiction; quietly observed stories of longing and loss in the interior of British Columbia.
  19. Tom Bedlam — George Hagen — A sprawling Victorian melodrama; an orphan's picaresque journey through the underbelly of London.