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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,... -
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... -
Amnesia by Peter Carey
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian Book of the YearWhen Gaby Baillieux, a young woman from suburban Melbourne, releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system,... -
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... -
Illywhacker by Peter Carey 9780679767909
Booksplease Price: $31.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Booker Prize 1985.Book InformationISBN 9780679767909Author Peter CareyFormat Pa -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Peter Carey Bruce Woodcock 9780719067983
Booksplease Price: $30.19This is a revised and expanded edition of Woodcock's accessible study, now including detailed readings of Carey's latest novels, 'Jack Maggs' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang'.About the... -
Peter Carey: A Literary Companion by 9780786441525
RRP: $83.83Booksplease Price: $71.53Peter Carey, writer of such celebrated works as Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang, and His Illegal Self, is one of Australia's most critically acclaimed novelists. Deeply concerned... -
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... -
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh, Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for... -
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... -
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $23.69Apologies 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 -
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... -
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey 9780307476012
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Booker Prize 2010 and National Book Award Finalist 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780307476012Author... -
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... -
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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... -
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... -
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Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey 9780571228706 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $3.72In 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Find an Angel and Pick a Fight by Peter McCarey 9782970037606
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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... -
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... -
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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... -
Darkness Visible: Introduced by Nicola Barker by William Golding 9780571365098
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.52The destinies of three mysterious lost children entwine in this James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning fable by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Nicola... -
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... -
A Companion to Australian Literature since 1900 by Nicholas Birns 9781571134714
Booksplease Price: $83.66A fresh, twenty-first-century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive, and multicultural sense. Australian literature is one of the world's richest, dealing not only with "local"... -
Shooting Star Peter Temple 9780857383518
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64Anne Carson: fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. Her rich family has closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, ex-soldier and sacked police hostage negotiator. They want him to deliver the ransom... -
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... -
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... -
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...