Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2805

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2805

A rich and wide-ranging literary fiction box crossing continents and decades. Richard B. Wright's Giller Prize-winning Clara Callan, Kim Edwards's The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Len Deighton's Mamista, Gore Vidal's The Smithsonian Institution, and Helen Fielding's Olivia Joules anchor a box that moves with equal ease between literary prize-winners and compulsive page-turners. Jane Smiley, Scott Turow, Andrew Pyper, and Chris Bohjalian ensure the reading hours keep coming.

1. The Love of Stones — Tobias Hill — A jeweller's daughter pursues the history of a legendary three-stone gem across centuries and continents; a richly layered novel moving between 17th-century Europe and modern-day London and Japan.
2. Into the Wadi — Michel Drouart
3. Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop — Amy Witting — A Text Classics edition of Witting's sequel to I for Isobel; Isobel Callaghan navigates the working world of 1950s Sydney with sharp intelligence and quiet resilience.
4. The Seville Communion — Arturo Pérez-Reverte — A Vatican computer hacker, a medieval church, and a web of conspiracy in contemporary Seville; Pérez-Reverte at his most elegant and propulsive.
5. The Memory Keeper's Daughter — Kim Edwards — On a snowy night in 1964, a doctor delivers his own twins and makes a split-second decision that will haunt three lives across decades; a sweeping bestseller about secrecy, grief, and the roads not taken.
6. Renato's Luck — Jeff Shapiro — In a sleepy Tuscan hill town, municipal water worker Renato Tizzoni wonders whether his luck has run out; a warm, humane, and quietly funny novel about ordinary life, community, and the small decisions that change everything.
7. Mamista — Len Deighton — A CIA operative, a dying revolutionary, and a jungle war in a fictional Central American country; Deighton's 1991 thriller is a morally complex, fiercely observed departure from his usual Cold War terrain.
8. The Smithsonian Institution — Gore Vidal — A mathematical prodigy is summoned to the Smithsonian on Easter Sunday 1939 and finds himself enmeshed in a time-travel plot to prevent World War II; late Vidal at his most playfully subversive.
9. Looking for Transwonderland — Noo Saro-Wiwa
10. Clara Callan — Richard B. Wright — Two sisters — one in rural Ontario, one an actress in Depression-era New York — exchange letters through the 1930s; winner of the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award, and the Trillium Book Award.
11. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination — Helen Fielding — A glamorous freelance journalist becomes convinced that a charming man she meets in Miami is a terrorist; Fielding's comic follow-up to Bridget Jones, fast and funny throughout.
12. The Old Country — Sam North
13. Private Life — Jane Smiley — A Missouri woman's marriage to a brilliant, difficult astronomer stretches across the whole of the early 20th century; Smiley's quiet, devastating examination of what a life of accommodation costs.
14. Invitation to a Bonfire — Adrienne Celt — Inspired by the life of Vera Nabokov, a young Russian émigré working as a gardener at an American girls' school becomes entangled with a charismatic novelist and his terrifying wife; dark and beautifully written.
15. Tom Bedlam — George Hagen — A Victorian-set novel following a boy from the workhouse to the stage to the drawing rooms of Empire; Hagen brings Dickensian energy and genuine warmth to a richly peopled world.
16. The Law of Similars — Chris Bohjalian — A widowed Vermont deputy state's attorney begins an affair with a homeopathic healer, then finds himself investigating the near-death of one of her patients; morally suspenseful and beautifully observed.
17. Personal Injuries — Scott Turow — Kindle County attorney Sandy Stern takes on a case involving federal corruption and a web of compromised judges; Turow's most intricate legal thriller.
18. The Trade Mission — Andrew Pyper — A group of tech entrepreneurs disappear into the Amazon rainforest during a trade mission; Pyper builds dread with precision in this atmospheric Canadian thriller.