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The Big Bazoohley by Peter Carey
14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Wearing his 'Sonic the Hedgehog' pyjamas, Sam Kellow sleepwalks out of the hotel room in Toronto where he is staying with his parents . . . and wakes to find the door locked behind him. Exploring the hotel hallway, Sam meets Nasty Muriel, Droopy George and their chickenpox-covered son, Wilfred, who kidn ...Show more
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When her lover dies suddenly, all Catherine has left is her work. In an act of compassion her manager at London's Swinburne Museum gives her a very particular project- a box of intricate clockwork parts that constitute a nineteenth-century automaton, a beautiful mechanical bird. It's an object made of e ...Show more
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
39.95 AUD
Category: 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
The Fat Man in History and Other Stories by Peter Carey
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Fat Man in History and Other Stories combines the brilliant, bizarre, funny, chilling pieces originally published in The Fat Man in History and War Crimes (plus three stories not in either). Those from Fat Man posit what-ifs, with the title story wondering how, were some post-Marxist utopia to decla ...Show more
The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky's Karamozovs. Granny Catchprice runs her family business, and her family, with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives. Sixteen-year-old Benny dreams of transforming a failing automobile franchise into an empir ...Show more
The Tax Inspector by Carey Peter
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky's Karamozovs. Granny Catchprice runs her family business, and her family, with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives. Sixteen-year-old Benny dreams of transforming a failing automobile franchise into an empir ...Show more
The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I lost my own father at 12 years 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", ...Show more
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Carey Peter
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, with a cover by Michael Leunig Severely afflicted, doomed never to be taller than three foot six, Tristan Smith faces death and danger from the first moment of his energetic and ambitious life. Here, for the first time, is the ...Show more
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Severely afflicted, doomed never to be taller than three foot six, Tristan Smith faces death and danger from the first moment of his energetic and ambitious life. Here, for the first time, is the truth about him, from his birth in the Republic of Efica in the year 371 to the present day. When he goes on ...Show more
Theft by Peter Carey
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'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 begin until midway through the shitty stuff, by which time I had not only lost my 8-year-old son, but also my house and studio in Sydney where I had once be ...Show more
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Michael 'Butcher' Boone is an ex-'really famous' painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they've forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when a mysterious young woman named Marlene walks out of a ...Show more
Theft: A Love Story by Carey Peter
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's Theft: A Love Story, with a cover by Michael Leunig Michael 'Butcher' Boone is an ex-'really famous' painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they've forged a delicate equilib ...Show more