Peter Carey
The Chemistry Of Tears
$39.95$29.95 – Hard back / Penguin
When her lover dies suddenly, all Catherine has left is her work.
The long affair had been kept secret from their colleagues at London's Swinburne Museum and now she must grieve in private. Or almost. In an act of compas... Buy or find out more →
My Life As A Fake
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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... Buy or find out more →
Parrot And Olivier In America
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Short listed for the American Book Award
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, wanted to be an artist but h... Buy or find out more →
Collected Stories
$19.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
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. In each story C... Buy or find out more →
Wrong About Japan
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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, otherwise known as manga and... Buy or find out more →
Oscar And Lucinda
$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story. Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken w... Buy or find out more →
True History Of The Kelly Gang
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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... Buy or find out more →
Jack Maggs
$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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... Buy or find out more →
His Illegal Self
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
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... Buy or find out more →
Parrot And Olivier In America (Unabridged Audio)
$49.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
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, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. W... Buy or find out more →
Parrot And Olivier In America
$32.95 – Paperback book / Hamish Hamilton
Short listed for the American Book Award
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, wanted to be an artist but h... Buy or find out more →
Illywhacker
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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... Buy or find out more →
Parrot and Olivier in America
$49.95$29.95 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
Short listed for the American Book Award.
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, wanted to be an artist but ... Buy or find out more →
Theft
$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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, by which time I had not only... Buy or find out more →
The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith
$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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The Tax Inspector
$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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His Illegal Self
$45.00$35.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
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... Buy or find out more →
Bliss
$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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True History Of The Kelly Gang
$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Winner of the 2001 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
With Ned Kelly as narrator, this is the heart-rending story of a young boy growing up in the grinding poverty of colonial Victoria and of a young man defiantly resisting t... Buy or find out more →