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The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'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 l ...Show more
The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
$19.99 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
Theft by Peter Carey
$19.99 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
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia's most famous outlaw. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, w ...Show more
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence...' To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow ordinary Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloqui ...Show more
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at fifteen, has become the most wanted man in the wild colon ...Show more
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at fifteen, has become the most wanted man in the wild colon ...Show more
Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, the by Peter Carey
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
If you are not a citizen of Voorstand, you may not be familiar with the strange case of Tristan Smith and his illegal appropriation of Bruder Mouse. Even if you are a citizen of faraway Efica, you will only have heard rumours about the juggling, the somersaulting, the Burro Plasse tunnel, and the motel ...Show more
Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
For Peter Carey, a trip to Japan with his twelve-year-old son Charley would be a unique opportunity to share and learn something about his son's passion for Japanese comics and animated film, otherwise known as manga and anime. Convinced that there is 'a whole history and culture hidden between the fram ...Show more