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30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: The Writer and the City
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
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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 by Peter Carey
$20.00 AUD
Category: 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
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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
$20.00 AUD
Category: 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
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
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
Antarctica Cruising Guide: Includes Antarctic Peninsula, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Ross Sea by Peter Carey, Craig Franklin
$40.00 AUD
Category: Travel
Antarctica is Earth's most unusual and inspiring travel destination. Whether you've booked your ticket or are just dreaming of the ultimate journey, this beautiful field guide will lead you into a magic, untouched world. Learn About, Landing sites, Whales and seals, Penguins and sea birds, Geology, ice ...Show more
Antarctica Cruising Guide: Sixth Edition - Includes Antarctic Peninsula, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Ross Sea by Craig Franklin; Peter Carey
$40.00 AUD
Category: Travel Guides
Now packed with even more breathtaking color photographs, wildlife descriptions, and detailed area maps, this updated sixth edition of this bestselling Antarctica travel guide includes fascinating, full accounts of interesting places, spectacular landscapes, and local plants and wildlife-- from penguins ...Show more
Bliss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981 by Peter Carey
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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, for Harry wakes up in Hell, tortured by those he loves, and by the dreams and nightmares he once created for p ...Show more
Bliss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981 by Peter Carey
$20.00 AUD
Category: 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
Bliss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981 by Peter Carey
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in ...Show more
Bliss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981 by Peter Carey
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Vintage International
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