{"product_id":"secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2869","title":"Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2869","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2869\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwenty-one literary fiction titles spanning Booker winners, Nobel laureates, and some of the finest writing in English from the 1960s to the 1990s — Byatt, Barnes, Murdoch, Tyler, Winterson, Carey, Brink, and more. A box with serious literary pedigree.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\" 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 print:block print:space-y-1\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFemale Friends — Fay Weldon — Three women, three lives, and the complicated loyalties between them — Weldon's early voice at its sharpest and most unsentimental.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA New Life — Bernard Malamud (Penguin) — A New York English lecturer reinvents himself in the Pacific Northwest with typically Malamudian results — comic, rueful, and warm.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ePossession: A Romance — A.S. Byatt (1990 Booker Prize winner) — Two modern scholars uncover a Victorian love affair — Byatt's masterpiece, rich in poetry, letters, and literary ventriloquism.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Manor — Isaac Bashevis Singer (Penguin) — Singer's great saga of Jewish life in nineteenth-century Poland, as the old world meets modernity and the costs become clear.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eUnder the Net — Iris Murdoch (Penguin) — Murdoch's first novel: Jake Donaghue drifts through London and Paris pursuing truth and avoiding commitment — picaresque, funny, and philosophically charged.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSaint Maybe — Anne Tyler — Tyler's most religious novel, in which a young man's impulsive act destroys his family and he spends decades trying to atone — patient, moving, and exact.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eI for Isobel — Amy Witting — The quietly devastating story of Isobel Callaghan's emergence from a loveless childhood into a tentative adulthood — one of Australian fiction's most underrated novels.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFlaubert's Parrot — Julian Barnes (Picador) — Geoffrey Braithwaite's obsessive pursuit of which parrot Flaubert used on his desk — a novel about literature, loss, and the impossibility of biography.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eBliss — Peter Carey (Picador) — Harry Joy dies on the operating table, comes back, and finds himself in what might be hell — Carey's debut novel, wild and visionary and darkly funny.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eExile and the Kingdom — Albert Camus (Penguin) — Camus's only short story collection: six tales exploring isolation, rebellion, and the human need for connection — spare and permanent.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eAn Instant in the Wind — André Brink (Fontana) — A Boer woman and a runaway slave cross eighteenth-century South Africa together — Brink's most compressed and powerful historical novel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eLadder of Years — Anne Tyler — Delia Grinstead walks away from her family on a beach holiday and starts over in a small town — Tyler's most oblique and quietly radical novel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Bell — Iris Murdoch (Penguin) — A lay community beside an abbey, a bell retrieved from a lake, and a tangle of repressed desires — one of Murdoch's most perfectly structured novels.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Sacred and Profane Love Machine — Iris Murdoch (Penguin) — A man's two lives — respectable wife, secret mistress — begin to collide — Murdoch's Whitbread Prize winner.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Transit of Venus — Shirley Hazzard (King Penguin) — Two Australian sisters in postwar Europe, and the men whose lives intersect theirs — one of the great overlooked novels in English.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ePicture This — Joseph Heller (Picador) — Rembrandt painting Aristotle contemplating Homer — Heller's most formally ambitious novel, thinking about time, money, and the uses of art.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Pangs of Love and Other Stories — Jane Gardam (Abacus) — Gardam's precise, funny, and surprising short fiction — the title story a radical reimagining of The Little Mermaid.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Sidmouth Letters — Jane Gardam (Abacus) — Gardam's second story collection, moving between eras and settings with characteristic ease and a mordant humour all her own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Queen of the Tambourine — Jane Gardam (1991 Whitbread Best Novel of the Year Award winner) — Eliza Peabody writes letters to an absent neighbour and slowly reveals everything she has tried to keep hidden — extraordinary.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Tiger in the Tiger Pit — Janette Turner Hospital — Hospital's second novel examining the fault lines in an elderly marriage through the return of adult children — quietly devastating.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Passion — Jeanette Winterson — Napoleon's cook falls in love with a Venetian woman — Winterson's most intoxicating novel, magical and precise in equal measure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49028033118427,"sku":"SP2869","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2869.jpg?v=1785107092","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2869","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}