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30 Days in Sydney by Peter Carey
$22.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character with the help of his old friends, drawing the reader into a wild and wonderful very as bracing as the southerly buster that sometimes batters Sydney's shores. Famous sights such as Bondi Beac ...Show more
30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey
$10.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Writer and the City
Peter Carey captures our imagination with a brilliant and unexpected portrait of Sydney. In the midst of the 2000 Olympic games, Australia native Peter Carey returns to Sydney after a seventeen-year absence. Examining the urban landscape as both a tourist and a prodigal son, Carey structures his account ...Show more
A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal car race around the continent, over roads no car can ever quite survive. Set during the 1950s in the dying embers of the British Empire, A Long Way fr ...Show more
A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Peter Carey has explored his homeland of Australia in such highly acclaimed novels as Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang and Amnesia. Now, in this extraordinary novel, Carey takes us on an unforgettable journey that maps his homeland's secrets. Wildly inventive, funny and deeply moving, A ...Show more
Amnesia by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In AmnesiaPeter Carey, 'the greatest Australian writer' (Richard Flanagan), asks the most vital question of the past seventy years- Has America taken us over?When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse- an Ameri ...Show more
Bliss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981 by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in ...Show more
Collected Stories by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's Collected Stories, with a cover by Michael Leunig Collected Stories combines the brilliant, bizarre, funny, chilling pieces originally published in The Fat Man in History and War Crimes (plus three stories not in either). Those from Fat Man posit what-ifs, with ...Show more
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Herbert Badgery is vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch. He might very well be the embodiment of Australia's national character, especially in its fondness for tall stories and questionable history. As this charming scoundrel traverses the continent and a century's wor ...Show more
My Life as a Fake by Carey Peter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake, with a cover by Michael Leunig In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, editor of a London poetry journal, meets the mysterious Christopher Chubb. An Australian literary hoaxer, Chubb is carting around a manuscript likely f ...Show more
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Oscar Hopkins, the hydrophobic, noisy-kneed son of a preacher, renounces his father's stern religion in favour of the Anglican Church. Lucinda Leplastrier, a frizzy-haired heiress, impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. When the two finally mee ...Show more
Oscar and Lucinda - True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey; Peter Giles (Introduction by)
$15.99 AUD
$39.99 (60% off)
Category: REM Australian Fiction
Two novels in one hardback gift volume. Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang by twice Booker winner Peter CareyOSCAR AND LUCINDA is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century England and Australia where the two potential lovers lead parallel lives until chance br ...Show more