Secondhand Romance & Relationships Bargain Book Box SP2943

Secondhand Women's Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2943

This box has range — from Joanne Harris's spellbinding Chocolat to Kiley Reid's razor-sharp Such a Fun Age, from Frank McCourt's Limerick to Marian Keyes dismantling a family Christmas. Twenty-two novels about love, friendship, ambition, and the complicated, funny, sometimes devastating business of being alive.

1. Lifesaving for Beginners — Ciara Geraghty — Geraghty knows exactly how to take a catastrophe and turn it, slowly and without sentimentality, into a reason to keep going; warm, funny, and more quietly devastating than you expect.
2. The Wilding — Maria McCann — One family is about to have its darkest secrets dragged into the light, and McCann — author of the unforgettable As Meat Loves Salt — has a rare gift for making the ordinary feel profoundly menacing.
3. Trust — Mike Bullen — From the creator of Cold Feet, a sharply observed novel about the architecture of modern relationships and exactly how much we choose to know about the people we love.
4. Then Came You — Jennifer Weiner — Four women, one baby, and the beautiful mess of modern family; Weiner at her most ambitious and warm-hearted, following a single life's thread across four completely different perspectives.
5. The House Across the Road — Ann Whitehead — A novel about the stories we construct about the lives around us — and what happens when the truth turns out to be nothing like the fiction we've been living with.
6. After I'm Gone — Laura Lippman — A man vanishes rather than face justice, and the wife, three daughters, and mistress he leaves behind must each build their lives around the shape of his absence; beautifully constructed and quietly devastating.
7. The Loving Kind — Sarah Webb — Ireland's Sarah Webb at her warmest and most clear-eyed: what love actually requires of us when the terms are nothing like the ones we agreed to.
8. Love Always — Harriet Evans — A box of old love letters, a family gathered for a funeral, and the slowly unravelling story of a woman who loved too well and too secretly; Harriet Evans at her most quietly devastating.
9. The Underside of Joy — Seré Prince Halverson — What if the only way to keep the children you love is to let them go back to their mother? A debut novel with a premise that twists the heart, handled without a single false note.
10. White Sands of Summer — J.H. Fletcher — An Australian saga spanning generations and continents, built on survival, determination, and a love that knows no geography; J.H. Fletcher at her most ambitious.
11. Sushi for Beginners — Marian Keyes — An Irish magazine about to launch, a terrifying editor relocated from London, and the Dublin social ecosystem that will chew both of them alive unless they adapt. Compulsively funny and sharply observed.
12. The Boy I Love — Lynda Bellingham — Warm, confessional, and told with the directness of someone who has lived the theatre world from the inside; a portrait of ambition and love that never settles for easy answers.
13. Grown Ups — Marian Keyes — The whole Casey clan for Christmas, and everything anyone has been pretending not to notice for years finally gets said; disruptive, hilarious, and more honest about family than most writers dare to be.
14. The Other Side of the Story — Marian Keyes — Three women, the publishing industry, and the way friendship can curdle into something unrecognisable; Keyes turns her warmest, sharpest gaze on the world of books themselves.
15. Chocolat — Joanne Harris — A mysterious chocolatier sets up shop in a pious French village during Lent, and every carefully maintained pretence in the village begins to unravel; one of the most sensuous and quietly subversive novels of the past thirty years.
16. The Pilot's Wife — Anita Shreve — A woman learns her husband has died in a plane crash and then discovers that the man who died was not the man she thought she knew; Shreve's most propulsive novel, written with characteristic precision and restraint.
17. Such a Fun Age — Kiley Reid — A Black babysitter is accused of kidnapping the white child she's caring for, and the progressive family she works for responds in every wrong way with the best possible intentions; razor-sharp and deeply uncomfortable in the best sense.
18. Last Night at Chateau Marmont — Lauren Weisberger — She put her career on hold and worked extra shifts so her husband could pursue his music; now he's famous, and she's discovering what that exchange actually cost. Weisberger is wry and unsparing.
19. The Most Wanted — Jacquelyn Mitchard — A defence lawyer's compassion for two lonely teenage girls draws her into a story that spirals far beyond anything she intended; the author of The Deep End of the Ocean working at the height of her powers.
20. Australia Street — Ann Whitehead — From the bestselling author of The House Across the Road, a second novel about the ordinary street where nothing is quite as ordinary as it first appears.
21. Outside the Lines — Amy Hatvany — A woman who has spent her adult life searching for the father who disappeared when she was ten, and the love story that develops just as the search is reaching its end; life-affirming in the way only honest books can be.
22. Cents and Sensibility — Maggie Alderson — Sharp, funny, and impeccably observed, with an eye for fashion, friendship, and the gap between what we think we want and what we actually need; Australia's answer to Helen Fielding.