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Bliss by Peter Carey
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Peter Carey's astonishing debut novel is a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell.Bliss: the debut novel from twice... -
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50An 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,... -
Collected Stories by Peter Carey
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories... -
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in... -
The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25The day that Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy was also the day that the Tax Inspector, Maria Takis, arrived to begin her long-overdue... -
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25London,1837. 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 why is he so interested in the... -
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.52London 2011. Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of her lover of thirteen years - but as the mistress of a married man, she has to grieve in private... -
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on... -
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Havard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. He yearns to... -
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Melbourne, the late 1940s. A young conservative Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the most... -
The Fat Man in History by Peter Carey
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25The stories in Peter Carey's collection are bizarre, funny and chilling. Their landscape is exotic and surreal, an ominous near-future that has the distinct feel of contemporary life. Carey's... -
A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.42Longlisted for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary AwardShortlisted for the 2019 Walter Scott Historical Fiction PrizeIrene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural... -
Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey 9780571228706
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.52In a stunning memoir-cum-travelogue Peter Carey charts this journey, inspired by Charley's passion for Japanese Manga and anime, and explores his own resulting re-evaluation of Japan. Although... -
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $24.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Booker Prize 2001. Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2002.Book InformationISBN... -
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25If 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, you... -
Jack Maggs: A Novel by Peter Carey 9780679760375
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $31.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Guardian First Book Award 1997.Book InformationISBN 9780679760375Author Peter CareyForma -
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey 9780571270156
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.25'I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence...'To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer... -
Oscar and Lucinda: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.35OSCAR AND LUCINDA is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century England and Australia where the two potential lovers lead parallel lives until chance brings them together on... -
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A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey 9780571338856 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $4.52Longlisted for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary AwardShortlisted for the 2019 Walter Scott Historical Fiction PrizeIrene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural... -
Family Romance by John Lanchester
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49In this acclaimed memoir from the award-winning author of Fragrant Harbour and Capital, John Lanchester pieces together his family's past and uncovers their extraordinary secrets - from his... -
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden 9780297868019
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $16.971996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and Belgium who transport weapons between warring African nations, without... -
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden 9780297609100
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $17.841996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and Belgium who transport weapons between warring African nations, without... -
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43'Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate' Paul Theroux'An amazing and profound work, rich in memorable detail' Jay Parini'Foden has cleverly reworked the grand African adventure... -
Pure Andrew Miller 9781444724288
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'ANDREW MILLER'S WRITING IS A SOURCE OF WONDER AND DELIGHT' Hilary Mantel 'ONE OF OUR MOST SKILFUL CHRONICLERS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND MIND' Sunday Times***Winner of the Costa Book of the Year... -
Find an Angel and Pick a Fight by Peter McCarey 9782970037606
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $41.48Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
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Pure by Andrew Miller 9781444724288 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $3.84Out now: The Land in Winter, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 Pure: an enthralling tale of an extraordinary year in pre-revolutionary ParisWinner of the Costa Book of the Year... -
In the Evil Day Peter Temple 9780857383501
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64The Cold War is long dead but the trade in deceit and lies is still running hot. In Hamburg, John Anselm is hiding from the ghosts he has left behind in foreign war zones. He spends his days working... -
The Swan Book Alexis Wright 9781472120571
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute... -
My Name is Yip by Patrick Crewe
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.94A THE TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2023"MY NAME IS YIP TOLROY & I am a mute. I have made not a sound since the day of my... -
Kaddish.com by Nathan Englander
Booksplease Price: $22.02Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. When his father dies, it's his responsibility to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. To... -
Dry White Season by Andre Brink
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Ben du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man, unremarkable in every way - until his sense of justice is outraged by the death of a man he has known. His friend died at the hands of the police. In... -
My Name is Yip: An immersive and rollicking debut, longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction by Paddy Crewe
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61A THE TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 'Immersive and beautiful' The Times... -
The Great World by David Malouf
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli... -
Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.50Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in his Sunday... -
Poems About Sculpture by Murray Dewey
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42Sculpture has the longest memory of the arts: from the Paleolithic era we find stone carvings and clay figures embedded with human longing. And poets have long been fascinated by the idea of eternity... -
Journey Through a Small Planet by Emanuel Litvinoff
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class Jewish childhood in the East End of London: a small cluster of streets right next to the city, but... -
Summer by Edith Wharton 9780140186796
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts Berkshires Edith Wharton called Summer her 'hot Ethan'. In their rural... -
Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee 9780241983935
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $14.25Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in Age of Iron. In Cape Town, South Africa, an... -
The Taxi Queue by Janet Davey 9780099506966
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.32Two men meet by chance in the taxi queue outside Paddington station one January night. Richard is in his mid-forties, apparently happily married, with two children. Abe is young, and casually... -
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A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips 9780099428886 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $8.00The English village is a place where people come to lick their wounds. Dorothy has walked away from a bad thirty-year marriage, an affair gone sour and a dangerous obsession. Between her visits to...