Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2898

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2898

Six countries, eighteen novels — Malouf and Koch on Australian identity, Franzen and Ozick from America, Banville from Ireland, Zakes Mda from South Africa, and Ramsland from Denmark. Literary fiction that genuinely goes places.

1. Doghead — Morten Ramsland — a Norwegian family saga of eccentricity, darkness, and black comedy spanning several generations.
2. The Hours — Michael Cunningham — three women, three days, and Virginia Woolf's shadow falling across them all. Pulitzer Prize winner.
3. The Heart of Redness — Zakes Mda (Oxford Southern African Fiction) — a Booker Prize-shortlisted novel weaving colonial history and contemporary rural South Africa.
4. The Bear Boy — Cynthia Ozick — a novel from one of America's most precise and unsettling literary voices.
5. Soldiers' Women — Xavier Herbert — Herbert's earlier novel of Australian women navigating love and war on the home front.
6. Doctor Copernicus — John Banville — Banville's acclaimed novel of the astronomer who changed our picture of the universe and the cost of his vision.
7. A Future Arrived — Phillip Rock — the concluding novel in Rock's trilogy following English families through the years leading to the Second World War.
8. Ransom — David Malouf (Penguin) — Malouf's luminous retelling of the moment in the Iliad when Priam goes to Achilles to beg for his son's body.
9. Goldengrove: Unleaving — Jill Paton Walsh — a moving novel of grief, growing up, and a summer that changes everything.
10. Hitting the Wall — David Foster — Foster's formally adventurous Australian novel.
11. The Man Who Never Lived — Kevin Ireland — a novel of identity, deception, and the life unlived.
12. The Boys in the Island — C.J. Koch (Imprint) — Koch's debut novel of a Tasmanian boy and the pull of the wider world, reissued in its revised form.
13. The Search for Galina — Thomas Shapcott — Shapcott's novel of obsession and cultural displacement.
14. In the Beauty of the Lilies — John Updike — Updike's multi-generational American saga tracing a family's loss of faith across the twentieth century.
15. The Burning Book — Maggie Gee — Gee's formally bold novel of a family living through the prospect of nuclear war.
16. Reaching Tin River — Thea Astley — Astley's characteristically sharp and restless novel of a woman piecing together the life of a nineteenth-century woman.
17. Antidote to a Curse — James Cristina — a debut novel from an Australian writer.
18. Freedom — Jonathan Franzen — Franzen's vast, generously observed novel of a Midwestern family, ambition, and the burdens of American freedom.

Six countries, eighteen novels — Malouf and Koch on Australian identity, Franzen and Ozick from America, Banville from Ireland, Zakes Mda from South Africa, and Ramsland from Denmark. Literary fiction that genuinely goes places.

1. Doghead — Morten Ramsland — a Norwegian family saga of eccentricity, darkness, and black comedy spanning several generations.
2. The Hours — Michael Cunningham — three women, three days, and Virginia Woolf's shadow falling across them all. Pulitzer Prize winner.
3. The Heart of Redness — Zakes Mda (Oxford Southern African Fiction) — a Booker Prize-shortlisted novel weaving colonial history and contemporary rural South Africa.
4. The Bear Boy — Cynthia Ozick — a novel from one of America's most precise and unsettling literary voices.
5. Soldiers' Women — Xavier Herbert — Herbert's earlier novel of Australian women navigating love and war on the home front.
6. Doctor Copernicus — John Banville — Banville's acclaimed novel of the astronomer who changed our picture of the universe and the cost of his vision.
7. A Future Arrived — Phillip Rock — the concluding novel in Rock's trilogy following English families through the years leading to the Second World War.
8. Ransom — David Malouf (Penguin) — Malouf's luminous retelling of the moment in the Iliad when Priam goes to Achilles to beg for his son's body.
9. Goldengrove: Unleaving — Jill Paton Walsh — a moving novel of grief, growing up, and a summer that changes everything.
10. Hitting the Wall — David Foster — Foster's formally adventurous Australian novel.
11. The Man Who Never Lived — Kevin Ireland — a novel of identity, deception, and the life unlived.
12. The Boys in the Island — C.J. Koch (Imprint) — Koch's debut novel of a Tasmanian boy and the pull of the wider world, reissued in its revised form.
13. The Search for Galina — Thomas Shapcott — Shapcott's novel of obsession and cultural displacement.
14. In the Beauty of the Lilies — John Updike — Updike's multi-generational American saga tracing a family's loss of faith across the twentieth century.
15. The Burning Book — Maggie Gee — Gee's formally bold novel of a family living through the prospect of nuclear war.
16. Reaching Tin River — Thea Astley — Astley's characteristically sharp and restless novel of a woman piecing together the life of a nineteenth-century woman.
17. Antidote to a Curse — James Cristina — a debut novel from an Australian writer.
18. Freedom — Jonathan Franzen — Franzen's vast, generously observed novel of a Midwestern family, ambition, and the burdens of American freedom.

Six countries, eighteen novels — Malouf and Koch on Australian identity, Franzen and Ozick from America, Banville from Ireland, Zakes Mda from South Africa, and Ramsland from Denmark. Literary fiction that genuinely goes places.

1. Doghead — Morten Ramsland — a Norwegian family saga of eccentricity, darkness, and black comedy spanning several generations.
2. The Hours — Michael Cunningham — three women, three days, and Virginia Woolf's shadow falling across them all. Pulitzer Prize winner.
3. The Heart of Redness — Zakes Mda (Oxford Southern African Fiction) — a Booker Prize-shortlisted novel weaving colonial history and contemporary rural South Africa.
4. The Bear Boy — Cynthia Ozick — a novel from one of America's most precise and unsettling literary voices.
5. Soldiers' Women — Xavier Herbert — Herbert's earlier novel of Australian women navigating love and war on the home front.
6. Doctor Copernicus — John Banville — Banville's acclaimed novel of the astronomer who changed our picture of the universe and the cost of his vision.
7. A Future Arrived — Phillip Rock — the concluding novel in Rock's trilogy following English families through the years leading to the Second World War.
8. Ransom — David Malouf (Penguin) — Malouf's luminous retelling of the moment in the Iliad when Priam goes to Achilles to beg for his son's body.
9. Goldengrove: Unleaving — Jill Paton Walsh — a moving novel of grief, growing up, and a summer that changes everything.
10. Hitting the Wall — David Foster — Foster's formally adventurous Australian novel.
11. The Man Who Never Lived — Kevin Ireland — a novel of identity, deception, and the life unlived.
12. The Boys in the Island — C.J. Koch (Imprint) — Koch's debut novel of a Tasmanian boy and the pull of the wider world, reissued in its revised form.
13. The Search for Galina — Thomas Shapcott — Shapcott's novel of obsession and cultural displacement.
14. In the Beauty of the Lilies — John Updike — Updike's multi-generational American saga tracing a family's loss of faith across the twentieth century.
15. The Burning Book — Maggie Gee — Gee's formally bold novel of a family living through the prospect of nuclear war.
16. Reaching Tin River — Thea Astley — Astley's characteristically sharp and restless novel of a woman piecing together the life of a nineteenth-century woman.
17. Antidote to a Curse — James Cristina — a debut novel from an Australian writer.
18. Freedom — Jonathan Franzen — Franzen's vast, generously observed novel of a Midwestern family, ambition, and the burdens of American freedom.