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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 (Audio MP3 CD) by Peter Carey
$49.95 AUD
Category: Audiobook
Carey's most ambitious novel since True History of the Kelly Gang: a celebration and interrogation of the Australia of Peter's childhood. He takes us on a wild ride around the country in 1954 by way of the famous Redex car trial, during which our protagonist, Willy Bachhuber, learns the poignant truth o ...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
Amnesia by Peter Carey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse- an American corporation runs prison security, so the malware infects some 5000 American places of incarceration. Doors spring open. Both countries' secrets threaten t ...Show more
Amnesia by Peter Carey
$44.95 AUD
Category: Audiobook
Amnesia is Carey at his best: funny, sweeping, intimate, exhilarating. It is a novel that speaks powerfully about our history but most urgently about our present. How does a young woman from suburban Melbourne become America's public enemy number one? When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the ...Show more
Amnesia by Peter Carey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian 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
Bliss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981 by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Peter Carey's astonishing debut novel is a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell.
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
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Che is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties. Raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he yearns for his famous outlaw parents. Soon Che too is an outlaw- fleeing down subways, abandoning seedy motels at night, he is pitched into a journey that l ...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: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1989 by Peter Carey
$39.95 AUD
Category: Audiobook
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 me ...Show more
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Olivier is a French aristocrat, the child of survivors of the revolution. Parrot, the son of an English printer, is a restless servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in reality to avoid another revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe ...Show more