{"product_id":"six-of-the-best-lightning-fiction-debuts","title":"Lightning Fiction Debuts","description":"\u003ch4 data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"1036a1ed-da77-5f67-095e-e10a28ba42ae\"]' data-w-id=\"1036a1ed-da77-5f67-095e-e10a28ba42ae\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eLightning authors\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"1036a1ed-da77-5f67-095e-e10a28ba42ae\"]' data-w-id=\"1036a1ed-da77-5f67-095e-e10a28ba42ae\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"1036a1ed-da77-5f67-095e-e10a28ba42ae\"]' data-w-id=\"1036a1ed-da77-5f67-095e-e10a28ba42ae\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSix of the best\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"1036a1ed-da77-5f67-095e-e10a28ba42ae\"]' data-w-id=\"1036a1ed-da77-5f67-095e-e10a28ba42ae\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"1036a1ed-da77-5f67-095e-e10a28ba42ae\"]' data-w-id=\"1036a1ed-da77-5f67-095e-e10a28ba42ae\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eWe have packaged together six of our finest fiction debuts. The bundle consists of:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.eye-books.com\/books\/the-industry-of-human-happiness\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eThe Industry of Human Happiness\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, James Hall’s page-turning melodrama set against the backdrop of the ‘format wars’ at the birth of recorded sound; gripping and historically enthralling.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘A fascinating novel set in a fascinating world’ \u003cb\u003eRobert Elms\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘A grim cautionary tale about the dangers of obsession. Hall’s deep understanding and fondness for his subject comes crackling out of every page’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.eye-books.com\/books\/their-brilliant-careers\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eTheir Brilliant Careers\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, a hilarious collection of biographies of Australian literary giants (all fictitious), fitting together to form an ingenious shadow narrative; written by Scottish-born Ryan O‘Neill, it won the Australian Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘A brilliant work of fiction’ \u003cb\u003eStewart Lee\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘A divine satire on the narcissism of the literary world’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe i Paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.eye-books.com\/books\/the-hopkins-conundrum\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eThe Hopkins Conundrum\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e by Simon Edge, based on the life of Gerard Manley Hopkins and the doomed nuns in his most famous poem, and framed within a satire on the Da Vinci Code industry; it shouldn’t work, but it does.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘I love this novel. It pulls off the three-card trick of being entertaining, genuinely touching, and a fascinating insight into Hopkins’ poetry’ \u003cb\u003eHarriett Gilbert\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘Seesaws between comedy and calamity, present and past – a novel enjoyable on every level’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p6\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.eye-books.com\/books\/beneath-the-streets\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eBeneath the Streets\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e by Adam Macqueen, set in the Soho underworld of the 1970s, imagining what might have happened if Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe had succeeded in his plot to kill his male ex-lover; its sting in the tail reminds us that the truth can be just as chilling as fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘A breathtaking, heartbreaking thriller’ \u003cb\u003eJake Arnott\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p7\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘This very English scandal has wit and invention to spare’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p9\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.eye-books.com\/books\/wolf-country\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eWolf Country\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, the debut novel from Hungarian-born Tünde Farrand; set in a world where ageing has been abolished in favour of blissful euthanasia, it has now been published in four other languages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘A chilling and politically astute dystopia – sci-fi in the tradition of John Wyndham’ \u003cb\u003eJane Rogers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘Gripping’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe i Paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e – top debut novels of 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p11\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.eye-books.com\/books\/the-antipodeans\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eThe Antipodeans\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, Greg McGee’s three-generation saga about New Zealand prisoners-of-war in Northern Italy spent a year in the New Zealand bestseller charts and was longlisted for that country’s main literary prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘Like a Venetian Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.... you won’t want to put it down’ \u003cb\u003eSimon Edge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p12\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘Finding out how the past has shaped and informed the present gives this enthralling book the tautness of a thriller ... Remarkable’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Zealand Listener\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p12\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eSix paperbacks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eRRP £53.94\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e","brand":"Eye Books Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31660883968062,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1271\/4023\/products\/ScreenShot2020-03-29at11.28.28.png?v=1585573766","url":"https:\/\/www.eyebooksgroup.com\/products\/six-of-the-best-lightning-fiction-debuts","provider":"Eye Books Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}