Box Sets

Last updated: 9 November 2025

I am slowly working my way through the complete works of my favourite writers. I have started to compile a list of these writers and their works. Books in bold are read and those underlined are linked to where I have written about the book on this blog.

Margaret Atwood

• The Edible Woman (1969) 
  
• Surfacing (1972)
• Lady Oracle (1976)
• Life Before Man (1979)
• Bodily Harm (1981)
• The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
• Cat's Eye (1988)
• The Robber Bride (1993)
• Alias Grace (1996)
• The Blind Assassin (2000)
• Oryx and Crake (2003)
• The Penelopiad (2005)
• The Year of the Flood (2009)
• MaddAddam (2013)
• The Heart Goes Last (2015)
• Hag-Seed (2016)
• The Testaments (2019)
• Dearly (2020) 

Helen Garner

• Monkey Grip (1977) 
  
• Honour and Other People's Children (1980)
• Moving Out (1983)
• The Children's Bach (1984)
• Postcards from Surfers (1985)
• Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)
• The First Stone (1995)
• Joe Cinque's Consolation (2004)
• The Spare Room (2008)
• This House of Grief (2014)
• Stories (2017)
• Everywhere I Look (2016)
• Yellow Notebook (2019)
• One Day I'll Remember This (2020)
• How to End a Story (2021)
• The Season (2024)

Kate Grenville

• 
  Lillian's Story (1984) 
• Dreamhouse (1987)
• Joan Makes History (1988)
• Dark Places (1994)
• The Idea of Perfection (1999)
• The Secret River (2005)
• The Lieutenant (2007)
• Sarah Thorhill (2011)
• One Life: My Mother's Story (2015)
• The Case Against Fragrance (2017)
• A Room Made of Leaves (2020)
• Elizabeth Macarthur's Letters (2022)
• Restless Dolly Maunder (2023)

Elizabeth Strout

• Amy and Isabelle (1998) 
• Abide with Me (2006)
• Olive Kitteridge (2008)
• The Burgess Boys (2013)
• My Name is Lucy Barton (2016)
• Anything is Possible (2017)
• Olive, Again (2019)
• Oh William! (2021)
• Lucy by the Sea (2022)
• Tell Me Everything (2024)

Anne Enright

• The Wig My Father Wore (1995) 
  
• What Are You Like? (2000)
• The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002)
• The Gathering (2007)
• The Forgotten Waltz (2011)
• The Green Road (2015)
• Actress (2020)
• The Wren, The Wren (2023)

Hannah Kent

• Burial Rites (2013)
• The Good People (2016)
• Devotion (2021)
• Always Home, Always Homesick (2025)

Maggie O'Farrell

• After You'd Gone (2000) 
• My Lover's Lover (2002)
• The Distance Between us (2004)
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2006)
• The Hand that First Held Mine (2010)
• Instructions for a Heatwave (2013)
• This Must be the Place (2016)
• Hamnet (2020)
• The Marriage Portrait (2022)

Daphne Du Maurier

• The Loving Spirit (1931) 
  
• I'll Never be Young Again (1932)
• Julius (1933)
• Jamaica Inn (1936)
• Rebecca (1938)
• Frenchman's Creek (1941)
• Hungry Hill (1943)
• The King's General (1946)
• The Parasites (1949)
• My Cousin Rachel (1951)
• The Birds and Other Stories (1952)
• Mary Anne (1954)
• The Scapegoat (1957)
• The Breaking Point (1959)
• Castle Dor (1961)
• The Glass-Blowers (1963)
• The Flight of the Falcon (1965)
• The House on the Strand (1969)
• Don't Look Now (1971)
• Rule Britannia (1972)
• The Doll: Lost Short Stories (2011)

Garry Disher - Hirsch series

• Bitter Wash Road (2013)  
• Peace (2019) 
• Consolation (2020) 
• Day's End (2022)  
• Mischance Creek (2025)

Mick Herron - Slow Horses series

• Slow Horses (2010)
• Dead Lions (2013)
• The List (2015 - novella)
• Real Tigers (2016)
• Spook Street (2017)*
• London Rules (2018)
• The Marylebone Drop (2018 novella)
• Joe Country (2019)
• The Catch (2020 novella)
• The Last Dead Letter (2020 novella)
• Slough House (2021 novel)*
• Bad Actors (2022)*
• Standing by the Wall (2022 collection)*
• Clown Town (2025)*