As well as publishing home-grown fiction, the Lightning imprint brings stellar writing from Australia and New Zealand to UK readers. One of the books in this brilliant-value bundle won Australia’s biggest book prize; the other three were all listed for major prizes in Australia and New Zealand.

The Antipodeans, Greg McGee’s three-generation saga about Kiwi prisoners-of-war in Italy, spent a year in the New Zealand bestseller charts and was longlisted for that country’s main literary prize.

The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke by Tina Makereti is an unforgettable work of historical fiction about a young Māori orphan who agrees to become a living exhibit in Victorian London; it was also longlisted for New Zealand’s main literary prize.

An Isolated Incident is a crime novel with a difference by Emily Maguire, in which ‘whodunnit’ is the least interesting question; it was shortlisted for Australia’s equivalent of the Booker Prize as well as its main women’s and crime-writing prizes.

Their Brilliant Careers, by Scottish-born Ryan O’Neill, is a collection of spoof biographies of supposed Australian literary giants, fitting together to form an ingenious shadow plot; it won Australia’s most lucrative literary prize.

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