Oscar and Lucinda: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1989 by Carey, Peter
$21.84 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Amnesia by Peter Carey
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In AmnesiaPeter Carey, 'the greatest Australian writer' (Richard Flanagan), asks the most vital question of the past seventy years- Has America taken us over?When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse- an Ameri ...Show more
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
$39.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The Chemistry of Tears is both wildly entertaining and deeply moving, a portrait of love and loss that is simultaneously delicate and anarchic. At its heart is an image only the masterful Peter Carey could breath such life into - an object made of equal parts magic, art and science, a delight that conta ...Show more
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by PETER CAREY
$27.45 AUD
Category: General Fiction
First published in 1997, this novel won the 1997 Age Fiction Book of the Year, the 1998 Commonwealth Writers Prize, and the 1998 Miles Franklin Award. Transported convict Jack Maggs risks death by hanging when he returns to London from Australia to locate a young aristocrat. Based on characters from Cha ...Show more
Little by Edward Carey
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
There is a space between life and death: it's called waxworks. Born in Alsace in 1761, the unsightly, diminutive Marie Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed 'Little'. Orphaned at the age of six, she finds employmet in Bern, Switzerland, under the charge of reclusive anatomist, Dr Curtius. In time the unlikely ...Show more
Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
$21.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The extraordinary true story of four men who take the law into their own hands. This is the story of four young boys. Four lifelong friends. Intelligent, fun-loving, wise beyond their years, they are inseparable. Their potential is unlimited, but they are content to li ...Show more
America, America by Ethan Canin
$32.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
It is the early 1970s; Nixon is in the White House and Corey Sifter, the young son of working class parents, is befriended by the powerful Metarey family, whose patriarch is a kingmaker in the world of New York state politics. Corey becomes a yard-boy on the Metarey's grand estate, and soon, through the ...Show more
Resisting the Enemy by Lorraine Campbell
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Resisting the Enemy follows the story of Valentine de Vaillant - known as Valli - from a twelve-year-old schoolgirl in Australia to a young woman living in German Occupied France. From the moment Valli joins a Resistance Group, she engages in a series of clandestine activities that at any moment could l ...Show more
In Mortal Danger by Lorraine M. Campbell
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
My real name is Valentine de Vaillant. I once had a brother, Florian. He's now dead. So too are my mother and father. I live with my grand-mere in the Villa Mimosa. A German officer is billeted with us. Most likely he suspects I'm in the Resistance. He could report me to the Gestapo at any time. Every d ...Show more