Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2890

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2890

Serious literary fiction with real international range — twenty-one novels that take the form seriously, from a Costa Prize winner to Nadine Gordimer and Michael Chabon, via a remarkable number of Australian writers doing their best work.

1. Day — A.L. Kennedy — the 2007 Costa Book of the Year, a profound and formally daring novel of a World War II rear gunner and the life that didn't happen.
2. The Loud Earth — Elizabeth Murray — a lyrical and emotionally resonant novel from a Scottish writer.
3. Final Things: Three Novellas — John Sligo — three linked novellas of New Zealand life and the weight of the ordinary.
4. I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere — Anna Gavalda — the international bestseller, a collection of short stories about love, loneliness, and the moments that define us.
5. Longing: A Novel of Love and War — Gunnar Kopperud — a Norwegian novel of two people reaching across the distance of war.
6. Young Philby — Robert Littell — a novelised account of Kim Philby's early years as a spy, by a master of the espionage novel.
7. The Deep Field — James Bradley — an Australian novel of love, obsession, and the unknowable distance between people.
8. Caroline: A Mystery — Cornelius Medvei — a quiet, strange, and utterly original English novel.
9. The End of a Primitive — Chester Himes — one of the most uncompromising and incendiary novels from the great African-American crime and literary writer.
10. The Age of Fibs: Stories, Memoir, Microlit, New & Selected — Beth Spencer — a collected gathering from one of Australian fiction's sharpest and most experimental voices.
11. Tiggie Tompson: All at Sea — Tessa Duder — from the acclaimed author of Alex, a novel from one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers for adults and children.
12. A Dubious Legacy — Mary Wesley — Wesley at her mordant best, with a house full of secrets and a marriage nobody quite understands.
13. The Lost Life — Steven Carroll — a Miles Franklin Award-winning Australian novelist explores a summer that changed everything.
14. Pinkerton's Sister — Peter Rushforth — described as "unforgettable" by A.S. Byatt, a bold and richly layered literary novel.
15. Worst Fears — Fay Weldon — a widow discovers in the week after her husband's death that she knew nothing about his life. Fay Weldon at her most ruthless.
16. Wartime Lies — Louis Begley — the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel of a Jewish boy surviving occupied Poland under an assumed identity.
17. The Lonely Margins of the Sea — Shonagh Koea — a New Zealand novel of solitude, loss, and the small fierce dignities of a life lived alone.
18. A Hunger — Ross Raisin — Raisin's novel of desire and its discontents, taut and unsettling.
19. None to Accompany Me — Nadine Gordimer — post-apartheid South Africa and a woman reassessing her life: Gordimer's Nobel Prize era at its most searching.
20. Telegraph Avenue — Michael Chabon — a vast, generous, jazz-soaked novel of two record stores, two families, and the changing face of Oakland.
21. Small Hours — Bobby Palmer — from the author of Isaac and the Egg, a novel of grief, love, and the very small hours of the night.