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. 'I would never seek to define Manhattan by asking my New York friends for stories of Earth and Air and Fire and Water...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:160
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780747596882
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. 'I would never seek to define Manhattan by asking my New York friends for stories of Earth and Air and Fire and Water...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780642558848
Peter Carey explores the life and times of Australia's most enduring folk legend, Ned Kelly and his gang. Carey uses Ned Kelly himself as the powerful narrator of this novel...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781741660166
BLISS is a masterpiece of illusion that marked Peter Carey's brilliant debut as a novelist, and was later made into an award-winning film. The dilemma of Harry Joy is both funny and terrifying...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780702232558
"Bliss" is a masterpiece of illusion that marked Carey's brilliant debut as a novelist and was later made into a film. This is a new edition of the story of Harry Joy...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781741661118
Double Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's dazzling stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes are collected in one volume, together with three vintage stories not previously published in book form...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780702232541
The best of Carey's short fiction features here, drawn from work published previously in his two anthologies "The Fat Man in History" and "War Crimes"....more details Format:Paperback Pages:520
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780702230202
A landmark in contemporary Australian literature, The Fat Man in History, brought early acclaim to Carey for his brilliant and ingenious fiction. These twelve stories introduce visionary landscapes of intense clarity...more details Format:Hardback Pages:144
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780571240661
Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, precocious son of radical Harvard students in the sixties. Yearning for his famous Outlaw parents...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780307263728
"When the boy was almost eight, a woman stepped out of the elevator into the apartment on East Sixty-second Street and he recognized her straightaway. No one had told him to expect it. That was pretty typical of growing up with Grandma Selkirk . . . No one would dream of saying...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:271
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781741666373
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...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781741665352
'When the boy was almost eight a woman stepped out of the elevator into the apartment on East 62nd Street and he recognized her straight away. It was the smell his heart knew - patchouli...more details Format:Hardback
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780307276490
Seven-year-old Che Selkirk was raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. The son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties...more details Format:Paperback Pages:271
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780679767909
In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery...more details Format:Paperback Pages:608
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781741660227
In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780571275595
Illywhacker is a dazzling comic narrative, from the lips of the 109-year-old Herbert Badgery, the 'illywhacker' or confidence trickster of the title....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:576
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781854182159
Are you fully aware of your legal obligations, rights and responsibilities in respect of your own - or your clients - e-commerce business activities? As we use the Web as a platform for more and more of our business activities...more details Format:Spiralbound Pages:102
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780679760375
Returning to the 19th-century of his Booker Prize-winning "Oscar and Lucinda", Carey fashions an utterly captivating mystery with the story of thief Jack Maggs--a recent escapee from the prison island of Australia--who risks his life seeking vengeance and reconciliation....more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
Written as a sequel to Charles Dicken's Great Expectations, Carey tells the story of Jack Maggs, a convict who returns to London after serving his sentence in Australia....more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781741660289
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...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780642563200
In Melbourne in the 1940s a young poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach the country a lesson about pretension and authenticity, and submits an entire oevre of a fictious...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781740513081
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...more details Format:Book
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781740512466
From the author of "True History of the Kelly Gang" comes this compelling novel. Its about the price of honesty and the dark, deadly power of guilt. Its about a secret one man is desperate to tell...more details Format:Hardback
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781740513692
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...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781741661057
'Luminous and magical, OSCAR AND LUCINDA dances with a shimmer of light and dark as its two noble gamblers play out dreams of God and glass. A spectacular achievement.' Helen Daniel
Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781441729774
Olivier is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. Born on different sides of history...more details Format:CD
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781441729781
Olivier is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. Born on different sides of history...more details Format:CD
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780307592620
From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author: an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early-nineteenth-century America. Olivier--an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville--is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:400
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781441729811
Olivier, an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history...more details Format:CD
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781441729743
Olivier, an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history...more details Format:CD
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781441729750
Olivier, an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history...more details Format:CD
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780307476012
Man Booker Prize Finalist National Book Award Finalist Two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's latest feat of imagination is an irrepressible...more details Format:Paperback Pages:381
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780143203520
When the young French aristocrat Olivier is sent to the New World, Parrot is sent with him. The son of an English printer, Parrot wanted to be an artist but has ended up as a servant. They make an unlikely pair...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:468
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781926428246
Olivier is a young aristocrat born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:464
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780571253296
Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot is the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World...more details Format:Hardback Pages:464
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781741660104
From Granny Catchprice, who runs her family business - and her family - with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives to sixteen-year-old Benny...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781926428154
The Chemistry of Tears is both wildly entertaining and deeply moving, a portrait of love and loss that is simultaneously delicate and anarchic. At its heart is an image only the masterful Peter Carey could breath such life into - an object made of equal parts magic...more details Format:Hardback Pages:272
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780307592712
An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, a secret love story, and the fate of the warming world are all brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the most admired writers of our time. London 2011. Catherine Gehrig...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:240
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780679735984
From Granny Catchprice, who runs her family business--and her family--with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives to sixteen-year-old Benny...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780571231485
Told by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two hundred and twenty pound brother' Hugh, this book recounts their adventures and troubles after Butcher's plummeting prices and spiralling drink problem force them to retreat to northern New South Wales. It explores themes of art...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780733390401
Artist, Butcher Bones and his idiot-savant brother Hugh, recount their adventures after Butcher's plummeting prices and spiralling drink problem force them to retreat to northern NSW where the formerly famous artist is reduced to acting as caretaker for his patron...more details Format:CD-Audio
'I don't know if my story is grand enough to be a tragedy, although a lot of shitty stuff did happen. It is certainly a love story but that did not begin until midway through the shitty stuff...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780307276483
Michael "Butcher" Boone is an ex-"really famous" painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother...more details Format:Paperback Pages:269
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780307263711
From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author and recipient of the Commonwealth Prize comes this new novel about obsession, deception, and redemption...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:269
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781741664829
'I don't know if my story is grand enough to be a tragedy, although a lot of shitty stuff did happen. It is certainly a love story but that did not begin until midway through the shitty stuff...more details Format:Hardback
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781740512565
'I don't know if my story is grand enough to be a tragedy, although a lot of shitty stuff did happen. It is certainly a love story but that did not begin until midway through the shitty stuff...more details Format:Hardback
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780642589286
Ned Kelly is as much a part of the Australian national myth as swag hats and kangaroos. From his meagre beginnings, Kelly is forced into a life of crime by his pragmatic mother. As the unwilling apprentice of infamous highwayman Harry Power...more details Format:CD-Audio
I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false.
In TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780702232367
Carey explores the life and times of Australia's most enduring folk legend, Ned Kelly and his gang. Carey, using Ned Kelly himself as the powerful narrator of this novel...more details Format:Paperback Pages:416
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780613458443
Peter Carey, Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda, powerfully evokes the legend of nineteenth-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly in this novel narrated in defiantly descriptive prose by the barely literate bushranger himself.
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780375724671
"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false." In True History of the Kelly Gang...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781741660340
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 'Carey has reportedly said he waited a lifetime to write this novel. It has probably taken him a lifetime of writing to be able to accomplish it.' Matt Condon...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780702232633
'True History of the Kelly Gang' is a breathless adventure, both a lament and a tribute, a boy's defense of his mother and a man's confiding letter to the daughter he will never meet. Carey explores the emotional life and times of our most potent legend...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781741660043
If you are not a citizen of Voorstand, you may not be familiar with the strange case of Tristan Smith and his illegal appropriation of Bruder Mouse. Even if you are a citizen of faraway Efica...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781400078363
When Peter Carey offered to take his son to Japan, 12-year-old Charley stipulated no temples or museums. He wanted to see "manga," "anime," " "and cool...more details Format:Paperback Pages:158
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9781740513258
For Peter Carey, a trip to Japan with his twelve-year-old son Charley would be a unique opportunity to share and learn something about his son's passion for Japanese comics and animated film...more details Format:Paperback
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Peter Carey
ISBN:9780571228706
In 2002, twice Booker-winning author Peter Carey travelled to Japan, accompanied by his twelve-year old son Charley, on a special kind of pilgrimage. In this memoir-cum-travelogue he charts this journey...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:128
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ISBN:9781402556005
After the critical and commercial success of "True History of the Kelly Gang, Carey takes another giant step forward with a novel set in the Far East and shot through with intrigue at once historical...more details Format:CD
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ISBN:9781400152544
From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author and recipient of the Commonwealth Prize comes this new novel about obsession, deception, and redemption...more details Format:CD
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Peter Stafford Carey
ISBN:9781143419669
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:50
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Peter Stafford Carey
ISBN:9781166414801
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age...more details Format:Paperback Pages:50
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Carey Peter & Franklin Craig
ISBN:9780958262941
This book includes descriptions of the 26 most popular sites. It contains the natural history of over 30 sea birds & mammals and expert information on Antarctic conservation.For many people...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Carey Peter & Franklin Craig
ISBN:9780958291637
Antarctica is Earth's most unusual and inspiring travel destination. Whether you've booked your ticket or are just dreaming of the ultimate journey...more details Format:Paperback Pages:291
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Carey Peter
ISBN:9781926428147
Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer...more details Format:Hardback Pages:464
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Brycchan Carey;Peter J Kitson
ISBN:9781843841203
On 25 March 1807, the bill for the abolition of the Slave Trade within the British colonies was passed by an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:227
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Mike Carey;Brandon Peterson
ISBN:9780785121732
Picking up directly from the events of Ultimate Extinction The Earth was saved from the Ultimate threat: Gah Lak Tus. But scientist George Tarleton has captured a piece of that awesome entity and plans to reactivate it for his own evil purposes...more details Format:Paperback / softback