Books by peter carey

'I lost my own father at 12 yrs of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to ... More

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This novel tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a ... More

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Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be ... More

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An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, a secret love story, and the fate of the world are all brought to life in this hauntingly moving ... More

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"Bliss" was Peter Carey's astonishing first novel, originally published in 1981 - a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man ... More

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Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and ... More

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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. ... More

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With only 50 dollars to their name, Sam and his family arrive in Toronto to sell his mother's latest painting. Sam is locked out of his hotel room, ... More

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The first collection of short stories published by Peter Carey, whose other books include "Bliss", "Illywhacker" and "Oscar and Lucinda", which was ... More

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In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and ... More

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Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, precocious son of radical Harvard students in the sixties. Yearning for his famous ... More

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Now in its third edition, this invaluable handbook offers practical solutions to issues arising in relation to data protection law. It is fully ... More

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'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 ... More

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The day Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy, was also the day that Tax Inspector Maria ... More

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The Booker Prize-winning novel that catapulted Peter Carey into international literacy celebrity is a romance of the kind that could only take place ... More

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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. ... More

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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

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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 ... More

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A volume containing the stories in "The Fat Man in History" and "War Crimes", together with three other stories not previously published in book form ... More

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The introduction of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) revolutionised the public's access to public authority information, notably through ... More

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This invaluable handbook offers practical solutions to real problems, with specific chapters dedicated to the Internet, telecommunication, CCTV and ... More

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