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30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | 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: Fiction
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: 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
$22.99 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
Antarctica Cruising Guide: Includes Antarctic Peninsula, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Ross Sea by Peter Carey, Craig Franklin
$40.00 AUD
Category: Travel
Antarctica is Earth's most unusual and inspiring travel destination. Whether you've booked your ticket or are just dreaming of the ultimate journey, this beautiful field guide will lead you into a magic, untouched world. Learn About, Landing sites, Whales and seals, Penguins and sea birds, Geology, ice ...Show more
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1989 by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning Oscar and Lucinda, with a cover by Michael LeunigOscar 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, impulsivel ...Show more
Oscar and Lucinda: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1989 - and True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey; Paul Giles (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Peter Carey's two Booker Prize-winning novels, in one handsome hardcover volume. Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century Australia. Oscar, a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine, joins forces with Lucinda, a teenaged ...Show more
Plainsong: Picador Classic by Kent Haruf; Peter Carey (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Plainsong Ser.
With an introduction by Peter CareyI suppose it is crazy. I don't know. I don't even care. But that girl needs somebody . . . And you old solitary bastards need somebody too. Somebody or something besides an old red cow to care about and worry over.Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, ...Show more
The Fat Man in History and Other Stories by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The Fat Man in History and Other 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 the title story wondering how, were some post-Marxist utopia to decla ...Show more
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at fifteen, has become the most wanted man in the wild colon ...Show more
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at fifteen, has become the most wanted man in the wild colon ...Show more
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