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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Collected Stories

    by Peter Carey ...
    For the first time, Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's dazzling stories are gathered in one volume. Bound together with his critically acclaimed collection, The Fat Man in History, are seventeen fantastic and disturbing tales previously unpublished in Canada. In each one Carey reveals the surreal within the ordinary. A man begins peeling off his girlfriend's clothes and then layers of her skin to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • 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

    $12.39 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

  • Audiobook

    True History of the Kelly Gang

    by Peter Carey ...
    Narrated by Gianfranco Negroponte ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 21 min

    Winner of the Booker Prize“I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false.”In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    A Long Way from Home

    by Peter Carey ...
    Narrated by Colin McPhillamy, Saskia Maarleveld, Craig Baldwin ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 3 min

    The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country/continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000-mile race, the Redex Trial. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter the ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus