{"product_id":"showroom-sample-contemporary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp4047","title":"Showroom Sample Contemporary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4047","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShowroom Sample Contemporary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4047\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEighteen contemporary novels for a reader who likes a big story: Sally Rooney, Jeanine Cummins’ American Dirt, Lucinda Riley twice, Jessie Burton’s The Confession, Rosie Walsh, Cecelia Ahern, Erica James twice, Christy Lefteri’s Songbirds and Bernice McFadden’s Sugar. A mix of book-club fiction and summer reads. Some covers may carry price stickers or sticker residue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSongbirds — Christy Lefteri — A Sri Lankan maid in Cyprus goes missing and nobody looks for her except her employer’s wife and the man who loved her in secret. From the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, and angrier.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeautiful World, Where Are You — Sally Rooney — A novelist, her best friend, a warehouse worker and a political adviser, and the emails between the two women about whether anything they do matters. Rooney’s third, and the one with the most argument in it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Man Who Didn’t Call — Rosie Walsh — Seven perfect days, then he vanishes and doesn’t answer his phone. Her friends say he’s a cad; she knows something’s wrong. The twist is the whole point and it works. Liane Moriarty loved it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEscape to the French Farmhouse — Jo Thomas — Del moves to Provence with her husband, he leaves, and she stays, making lavender products in a village that doesn’t want her. Katie Fforde says pure joy; it’s the most escapist book here.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNever Greener — Ruth Jones — Kate, seventeen, had an affair with Callum, married and thirty-nine; twenty years on she’s a famous actress and he’s still married, and they meet again. The Gavin and Stacey co-writer’s debut novel, and it’s sharper than the TV.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMothers and Daughters — Erica James — Three generations, one lakeside house, and the secrets each woman keeps from the next. James’s big-cast family novel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSummer at the Lake — Erica James — Lake Como, two women decades apart, and a man who connects them. Comfort fiction with a view.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHer Husband’s Mistake — Sheila O’Flanagan — Roxy’s husband made one mistake; she has to decide whether a marriage is more than one mistake. O’Flanagan’s Irish domestic realism, done well.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmerican Dirt — Jeanine Cummins — Lydia and her son flee Acapulco after a cartel kills her whole family at a quinceañera, and ride the trains north with the migrants. The most argued-over bestseller of 2020, and a page-turner whatever you think of the argument.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSugar — Bernice L. McFadden — A prostitute moves into a church-going Arkansas town in the 1950s and the woman next door, who lost a daughter, befriends her. McFadden’s debut, and a Black American classic in the making.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Year I Met You — Cecelia Ahern — Jasmine is fired, gardening-leaved for a year, and stuck watching the drunk neighbour across the road she’s always hated. Ahern’s most grown-up book.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack Country Orphan — Annie Murray — A girl abandoned at a Birmingham foundry grows up never sure whether she’s family or servant. Murray’s Black Country is the real thing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Butterfly Box — Santa Montefiore — Chile and Cornwall, a childhood love and a box of secrets. Montefiore’s first and still her readers’ favourite.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSunny Days and Sea Breezes — Carole Matthews — Jodie runs away to a houseboat on the Isle of Wight and finds a community that won’t leave her alone. Milly Johnson calls it sun-filled; it is.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Shadow Sister — Lucinda Riley — Star, the third of the Seven Sisters, follows her adoptive father’s clue to a London bookshop and a Edwardian story about a woman named Flora. Riley’s big series at its most English.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEverything Is Beautiful — Eleanor Ray — Amy is a hoarder, her house is full, and a child next door starts to find things in it. A gentle novel about grief disguised as a tidy-up story. Katie Fforde says beautifully written.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Confession — Jessie Burton — Rose takes a job as assistant to the reclusive novelist Constance Holden, who once knew Rose’s missing mother. 1980s LA and present-day London, from the Miniaturist author.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHothouse Flower — Lucinda Riley — A Norfolk estate, a wartime affair in Thailand, and the granddaughter who inherits the secret. Riley before the Seven Sisters, and arguably better.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer Box","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50852180754651,"sku":"SP4047","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp4047.jpg?v=1792453068","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/showroom-sample-contemporary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp4047","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}