{"product_id":"secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2808","title":"Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2808","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2808\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA literary fiction box that earns its shelf space across three rows: Michael Frayn at his comic best, Wu Ming's sweeping postwar epic 54, Nancy Huston's Giller-shortlisted Fault Lines, Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You, and Jane Smiley's Ten Days in the Hills. Benet Brandreth, Maggie Mitchell, Sherman Alexie, Libby Angel, and Gene Brewer's complete K-PAX trilogy round out a box that ranges widely and reads beautifully throughout.\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\"\u003eSkios — Michael Frayn — A comic novel set at an international science foundation on a Greek island, where a case of mistaken identity spirals into perfect farce; late Frayn at his most elegant and funny.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e54 — Wu Ming — Set in 1954 across Europe and America, the Italian collective's second novel weaves together Cary Grant, a Mafia hitman, Italian Communist partisans, and the fading promises of the postwar left; epic and inventive.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eGreen Dragon, White Tiger — Annette Motley — A sweeping historical novel set in Tang Dynasty China, following a young woman's rise and survival in the imperial court; richly imagined and atmospherically told.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFault Lines — Nancy Huston — Moving backwards through four generations of a single family, each section narrated by a different 6-year-old child; a formally daring and emotionally devastating examination of how violence is inherited and transmitted across time. Shortlisted for the Giller Prize.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eDunster — John Mortimer — A journalist becomes obsessed with proving that an old acquaintance committed war crimes; a morally complex and typically elegant novel from the creator of Rumpole of the Bailey.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMy Dream of You — Nuala O'Faolain — A travel writer returns to Ireland after her closest friend's death and becomes absorbed by a 19th-century love affair between an Irish servant and an English landlord; one of the most significant Irish novels of the early 2000s.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Assassin of Verona — Benet Brandreth — Shakespeare and his players arrive in Verona to find themselves entangled in a deadly conspiracy; the second novel in Brandreth's atmospheric Elizabethan thriller series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ePretty Is — Maggie Mitchell — Two women who were kidnapped by the same man as children — one now a novelist, the other an actress — begin circling the defining event of their lives; a literary thriller of exceptional psychological intelligence.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Old House at Mount Munecarthur — Jennifer Genay\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eTen Days in the Hills — Jane Smiley — In the days following the invasion of Iraq, a group of Californians gather at a Hollywood house and talk, argue, desire, and grieve; Smiley's Decameron-inspired novel of American life at a turning point.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Trapeze Act — Libby Angel — A luminous Australian literary novel about family, performance, and the secrets held between generations; published by Melbourne's Transit Lounge.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Toughest Indian in the World — Sherman Alexie — Stories moving between the reservation and the wider American world, shot through with Alexie's characteristic grief, dark comedy, and fierce intelligence.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSecrets of the Trail Cafe — Thomas Fox Averill\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eK-PAX: The Trilogy — Gene Brewer — All three K-PAX novels in one volume: the quietly extraordinary story of a psychiatric patient named Prot who insists he is an alien visitor, and the psychiatrist who cannot entirely dismiss his claims.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA Guy, Three Girls and a Jealous Dog — Grant King — A comic novel of romantic entanglements and domestic chaos, with a jealous dog at the centre of the trouble.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eAn Act of Peace — Ann Widdecombe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ePhilosophy Made Simple — Robert Hellenga — A recently widowed avocado farmer sells up and travels to Italy and India with his daughters, reading philosophy as he goes; a warm, unhurried novel about loss, love, and the examined life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eNothing But Blue Sky — Katharine McMahon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48816581279963,"sku":"SP2808","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2808.jpg?v=1779957535","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2808","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}