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Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by Peter Carey
27.95 NZD
32.99 (15% off)
Category: Fiction
The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. He has the demeanor of a savage and the skills of a har ...Show more
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by Peter Carey
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jack Maggs returns to the London of his childhood, risking death at the hands of the hangman. His secret mission, to locate the young aristocrat who owes his wealthy lifestyle to the former convict, sends him on a wild journey in the company of a mesmerising novelist who wants Maggs's story at any price ...Show more
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
34.95 NZD
39.99 (12% off)
Category: Fiction
My Life as a Fake is a fantastical gothic tale, in part inspired by Mary Shelley
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
49.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
MY LIFE AS A FAKE is a fantastical gothic tale, in part based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, about a hoax poet who mysteriously materialises and then pursues, taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker. Two-time Booker prize winning author Peter Carey uses the Ern Malley hoax as a springboard, but ...Show more
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
27.95 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Fiction
MY LIFE AS A FAKE is a fantastical gothic tale, in part inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, about a hoax poet who mysteriously materialises and then pursues, taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker. Two-time Booker prize winning author Peter Carey uses the Ern Malley hoax as a springboard, ...Show more
Oscar & Lucinda by Peter Carey
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
"Oscar and Lucinda are two of the most perfectly realised characters in modern fiction. An immensely skilful and absorbing juxtaposition of a gently comic, obliquely ironic, and deeply compassionate vision of human existence." - David Williamson
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Oscar Hopkins, the hydrophobic, noisy-kneed son of a preacher, renounces his father's stern religion in favour of the Anglican Church. Lucinda Leplastrier, a frizzy-haired heiress, impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. When the two finally mee ...Show more
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
39.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good
Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in re ...Show more
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Olivier is a French aristocrat, the child of survivors of the revolution. Parrot, the son of an English printer, is a restless servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in reality to avoid another revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe ...Show more
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
55.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in re ...Show more
Parrot and Olivier in America (PB) by Peter Carey
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
When the young French aristocrat Olivier is sent to the New World, apparently to study its prisons but in reality to avoid another revolution, Parrot is sent with him. The son of an English printer, Parrot wanted to be an artist but has ended up as a servant. They make an unlikely pair - but as their ad ...Show more
The Big Bazoohley by Peter Carey
18.99 NZD
Category: Children 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