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  • True History of the Kelly Gang

    A Novel

    by Peter Carey ...
    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, starring George MacKay, Essie Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Charlie Hunnam, and Russell Crowe.The international bestseller, Booker Prize winner, and winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book.Out of 19th century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations: Ned Kelly, the son of poor Irish immigrants, viewed by the authorities as a thief ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Oscar and Lucinda

    WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE

    by Peter Carey ...
    'A novel of extraordinary richness''Remarkable . . . irresistible'Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed . . .Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Peter Carey's Booker prize-winning novel is a brilliant ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Illywhacker

    by Peter Carey ...
    An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery travels across the Australian continent and a century in a picaresque novel full of outlandish encounters and dangerous characters. Overflowing with magic, jokes and ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Jack Maggs

    by Peter Carey ...
    A foundling trained in the art of thievery, Jack Maggs was betrayed and deported to Australia for life. But now, having reversed his fortunes, he seeks to fulfill his innermost desire. Returning to London under threat of execution, he's quickly embroiled in various entanglements among a handful of characters -- each with their own secrets. And as their various schemes converge, the captivating ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • A Long Way from Home

    A Novel

    by Peter Carey ...
    Over the course of his stellar writing life, Peter Carey has explored his homeland of Australia in such highly acclaimed novels as Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang and Amnesia. Writing at the peak of his powers, Carey takes us on an unforgettable journey that maps his homeland's secrets in this extraordinary new novel.Wildly inventive, funny and profoundly moving, A Long Way from ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • 30 Days in Sydney

    A Wildly Distorted Account

    by Peter Carey ...
    After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character with the help of his old friends, drawing the reader into a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery as bracing as the southerly buster that sometimes batters Sydney's shores. Famous sights such as Bondi Beach, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and the Blue Mountains ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Wrong About Japan

    by Peter Carey ...
    Previous winner of two Booker Prizes, Peter Carey expands his extraordinary achievement with each new novel — but now gives us something entirely different.When famously shy Charley Carey becomes obsessed with Japanese manga and anime, Peter is not only delighted for his son, but entranced himself. Thus, with a father sharing his twelve-year-old’s exotic comic books, begins a journey that will ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • His Illegal Self

    by Peter Carey ...
    Two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey’s His Illegal Self crackles with passionate, electrifying prose and characters that leap off the page and into your psyche. Utterly captivating.It is 1972 and Ché, a precocious seven-almost-eight-year-old boy, leads a rather bourgeois life on Park Avenue with his eccentric grandmother. His parents are young radicals in hiding from the FBI – he has never ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • My Life as a Fake

    by Peter Carey ...
    Following the triumph of his Booker Prize–winning True History of the Kelly Gang*,* Peter Carey ventures into the Far East with a novel shot through with mysteries at once historical, literary, and personal.Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry magazine, had grown up knowing the famous and infamous John Slater. And because he figured prominently in the disaster that was her parents’ ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Parrot and Olivier in America

    by Peter Carey ...
    From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author: an irrepressible, audacious, trenchantly funny new novel set in the 19th century and inspired in part by the life of Alexis de Tocqueville.With dazzling exuberance and all the richness of characterization, story, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer, Peter Carey explores the birth of democracy, the limits of friendship ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Chemistry of Tears

    by Peter Carey ...
    An automaton, a secret love story, a man and a woman who can never meet, and the fate of the warming world are all brought to incandescent life in this haunting new novel from one of the most admired writers of our time.When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator and clock expert, finds out that her very married lover of thirteen years has dropped dead, she has keep her grief a secret. But with no ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Amnesia

    by Peter Carey ...
    From the two-time Booker Prize winner: a masterful, exceedingly timely new novel--at once dark, suspenseful and seriously funny--that takes us on a journey to the place where the cyber underworld of radicals and hackers collides with international power politics.When an internet virus throws open the gates at thousands of American prisons, the hacker turns out to be an unlikely young Australian ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook