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Media Law Media Law
Author: Peter Carey, Peter Coles & Nick Armstrong

Written in a clear and accessible format, this well-referenced text offers a practical insight into key media issues, while avoiding the use of unnecessary and complex legal jargon. Diagrams, flow charts, bulleted lists ...
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My Life as a Fake My Life as a Fake
Author: Peter Carey

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 ...
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His Illegal Self His Illegal Self
Author: Peter Carey

His Illegal Self is the story of Che. Raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties. Yearning for his famous Outlaw parents ...
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Oscar and Lucinda Oscar and Lucinda
Author: Peter Carey

Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story. Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken w ...
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30 Days in Sydney 30 Days in Sydney

The Writer and the City

Author: Peter Carey

After living in New York for ten years novelist Peter Carey returned home to Sydney with the idea of capturing its ebullient character via the four elements. 'I would never seek to define Manhattan by asking my New York ...
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Wrong About Japan Wrong About Japan
Author: Peter Carey

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 ...
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Theft Theft
Author: Peter Carey

'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 onl ...
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Bliss Bliss
Author: Peter Carey

BLISS is a masterpiece of illusion that marked Peter Carey's brilliant debut as a novelist, and was later made into an award-winning film. The dilemma of Harry Joy is both funny and terrifying, for Harry wakes up in Hell ...
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Collected Stories Collected Stories
Author: Peter Carey

Double Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's dazzling stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes are collected in one volume, together with three vintage stories not previously published in book form. In each story C ...
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My Life as a Fake My Life as a Fake
Author: Peter Carey

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 ...
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Illywhacker Illywhacker
Author: Peter Carey

In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king ...
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Jack Maggs Jack Maggs
Author: Peter Carey

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 ...
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The Big Bazoohley The Big Bazoohley

The Big Bazoohley

Author: Peter Carey

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 m ...
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The Tax Inspector The Tax Inspector
Author: Peter Carey

From Granny Catchprice, who runs her family business - and her family - with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives to sixteen-year-old Benny, who dreams of transforming a failing automobile franchise into a ...
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True History of the Kelly Gang True History of the Kelly Gang
Author: Peter Carey

'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 singl ...
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30 Days in Sydney 30 Days in Sydney

The Writer and the City

Author: Peter Carey

After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character with the help of his old friends, drawing the reader into a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and red ...
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His Illegal Self His Illegal Self

His Illegal Self

Author: Peter Carey

'When the boy was almost eight a woman stepped out of the elevator into the apartment on East 62nd Street and he recognized her straight away. It was the smell his heart knew - patchouli, jasmine, other stuff... That was ...
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The True History of the Kelly Gang The True History of the Kelly Gang
Author: Peter Carey

In The True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semi-literate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his p ...
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Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, the Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, the
Author: Peter Carey

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 ru ...
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Parrot and Olivier in America Parrot and Olivier in America

Parrot and Olivier in America

Author: Peter Carey

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. ...
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