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A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey
$32.99 AUD
Category: General 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 CD; unabridged; 9 CDs) by Peter Carey
$49.95 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction
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
A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in western Victoria. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent over roads no car will ever quite survive. With them is their lanky fair-haired navigator, Willie Bachhuber, a quiz show champion and f ...Show more
Amnesia by Peter Carey
$22.99 AUD
Category: General 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
Collected Stories by Peter Carey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
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
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by Carey, Peter
$15.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by PETER CAREY
$27.45 AUD
Category: General Fiction
First published in 1997, this novel won the 1997 Age Fiction Book of the Year, the 1998 Commonwealth Writers Prize, and the 1998 Miles Franklin Award. Transported convict Jack Maggs risks death by hanging when he returns to London from Australia to locate a young aristocrat. Based on characters from Cha ...Show more
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 - MP3 by Peter Carey
$39.95 AUD
Category: Adult 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
Oscar & Lucinda by Peter Carey
$22.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction
"Oscar and Lucinda are two of the most perfectly realised characters in modern fiction. An immensely skilful and absorbing juxtaposition of a gently comic, obliquely ironic, and deeply compassionate vision of human existence." - David Williamson
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: General 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