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30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: The Writer and the City | Reading Level: very good
After living in New York for ten years novelist Peter Carey returned home to Sydney with the idea of capturing its ebullient character via the four elements. Here, he draws the reader into a journey of discovery and re-discovery. It offers you a private glimpse of Sydney and what lies behind the glitter ...Show more
A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Amnesia by Peter Carey
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 Amer ...Show more
Amnesia by Peter Carey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
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: Journey to the Ends of the Earth by Peter Carey
$40.00 NZD
Category: Travel Guides and Planners
For many people, an Antarctic cruise is the dream of a lifetime. This is the only definitive field guide to Antarctica for visitors travelling by luxury liner, adventure cruise or private boat. The authors are recognised world experts in Antarctic travel, wildlife and conservation, and the book is illus ...Show more
Bliss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981 by Peter Carey
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
It takes dying during a heart attack for Harry Joy to realise that the life he thought was happy is actually hellish. His wife is a cheat, his kids are a source of shame, his company spruiks carcinogens. While Harry is resuscitated he will never be the same, for having seen his own misery, he can no lon ...Show more
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
His Illegal Self is the story of Che. Raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties. Yearning for his famous Outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long-haired t ...Show more
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
$55.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1972 and Ché, a precocious seven - almost - eight-year-old boy, leads a rather bourgeois life on Park Avenue with his eccentric grandmother. His parents are young radicals in hiding from the FBI – he has never even met his father and he last saw his mother at the age of two. Ché is ecstatic when a ...Show more
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
$27.90 NZD
Category: World fiction
In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarc ...Show more
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by Peter Carey
$27.90 NZD
Category: World fiction
The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. He has the demeanor of a savage and the skills of a har ...Show more
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by Peter Carey
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
The year is 1837 and ex-convict Jack Maggs has returned illegally to London from Australia. Installing himself in the household of a genteel grocer, he attracts the attention of a cross-section of society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. Writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hyp ...Show more
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
MY LIFE AS A FAKE is a fantastical gothic tale, in part inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, about a hoax poet who mysteriously materialises and then pursues, taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker. Two-time Booker prize winning author Peter Carey uses the Ern Malley hoax as a springboard, ...Show more