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100 Poets: A Little Anthology
A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry "Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."-...
A Little History of Poetry
A vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the present "[A] fizzing, exhilarating book."-Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"- New York Times Book Review Poetry is language made special,...
Original Copy: Selected Reviews And Journalism 1969-1986
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the intersection of wit and erudition stands John Carey, one of Britain's most formidable literary critics, whose Original Copy: Selected Reviews and Journalism...
John Donne: Life, Mind & Art
$20.00 AUD
Author: John CareyBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly biography offers a profound examination of John Donne, one of England's most...
The Faber Book of Science
$12.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Professor John Carey Format:...
Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the 20th Century's Most Enjoyable Books
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The Faber Book of Reportage
$12.00 AUD
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Company of Heroes: My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company
When Harry Carey, Sr. died in 1947, director John Ford cast Carey's 26-year-old son, Harry, Jr. in the role of The Abilene Kid in 3 Godfathers. Ford and the elder...
William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies
$20.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Professor John Carey Format:...
Parrot And Olivier In America
$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when an aristocratic French idealist and his roguish, working-class English manservant are thrown together in the raw, teeming...
A Letter to Our Son (SIGNED)
$110.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: Signed"A Letter to Our Son" is a deeply personal memoir in which the acclaimed Australian novelist addresses his newborn...
God Save The Queen HC
Written by Mike Carey Art and cover by John Bolton GOD SAVE THE QUEEN is a new hardcover that reunites acclaimed writer Mike Carey (CROSSING MIDNIGHT, LUCIFER) with renowned fantasy...
God Save The Queen
$40.00 AUD
Written by Mike Carey Art and cover by John Bolton "Bolton's (FABLES) fully painted panels are vivid and alluring...a treat for any fan of the fantastic." - Publishers Weekly Don't...
My Life as a Fake
An Australian literary hoax lies at the core of My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey's captivating, 'continuously startling' (John Updike) contemplation of the art world. In steamy, fetid Kuala...
The Private Memoirs And Confessions Of A Justified Sinner: Written By Himself; With A Detail Of Curious Traditionary Facts And Other Evidence By The Editor
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFirst published in 1824, James Hogg's masterwork of psychological terror and theological dread presents the chilling confession of Robert Wringhim, a fanatical...
Jack Maggs
$10.00 AUD
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Jack Maggs
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My Life as a Fake
$12.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Carey (University of Canberra)...
War Crimes (SIGNED)
$250.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: SignedCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Small tear on rear panel of DJ. Pages slightly...
A Letter To Our Son
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA deeply personal and emotionally resonant work of creative nonfiction, A Letter to Our Son chronicles the harrowing experience of...
Oscar and Lucinda
$10.00 AUD
Set onboard an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour-de-force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an...
Jack Maggs (SIGNED)
$100.00 AUD
Author: Peter CareyBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1997Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedA convict arrives in London, he seeks to find the truth about his origins....
Oscar and Lucinda (SIGNED)
$110.00 AUD
Author: Peter CareyBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Queensland Press, 1988Condition remarks: FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY AUTHOR!Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with light tanningPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed Oscar and Lucinda is a novel...
The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith (SIGNED)
$60.00 AUD
Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedA bold and inventive work of postcolonial literary fiction, The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith chronicles the story...
Jack Maggs (SIGNED)
$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn the fog-drenched streets of Victorian London, a dangerous man has returned from the far edges of the...
Jack Maggs (SIGNED)
$100.00 AUD
Author: Peter CareyBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Queensland Press, 1997Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionSet in 1837, 'Jack Maggs' follows the journey of ex-convict Jack Maggs, who returns...
My Life As A Fake
$10.00 AUD
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Jack Maggs
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Award, Peter Carey's Jack Maggs is dazzlingly entertaining. The year is 1837 and ex-convict Jack Maggs has returned illegally to...
My Life As A Fake (SIGNED)
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Yellowed Markings: SignedA darkly comic literary thriller, My Life as a Fake chronicles the obsessive journey of Sarah...
Wrong About Japan
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American Dreams
$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA masterwork of Australian short fiction, American Dreams presents a quietly unsettling collection of stories in which Peter Carey...
Illywhacker (SIGNED)
$120.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition. Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: SignedCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean text. A sprawling, exuberant work of Australian literary...
The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith (SIGNED)
$90.00 AUD
Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedBorn into a world that refuses to accept him, Tristan Smith — a physically deformed child raised in the shadow...
A Long Way from Home
$12.00 AUD
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The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis imaginative novel, The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith, plunges readers into a fantastical...
Amnesia
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Amnesia
In Amnesia Peter 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...
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
$15.00 AUD
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His Illegal Self
$10.00 AUD
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Oscar & Lucinda (SIGNED)
$65.00 AUD
Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: unclipped dj. In the sun-drenched and socially rigid world of Victorian-era England and Australia, two misfits...
My Life As A Fake
$20.00 AUD
Author: Peter CareyBinding: HardbackPublished: Random House, 2003Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsPeter Carey's "My Life As A Fake" is a masterful work of literary fiction that plunges into the...
Parrot and Olivier in America
Olivier 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...