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His Illegal Self (Paperback, Main - Re-issue): Peter Carey His Illegal Self (Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
Peter Carey 1
R249 Discovery Miles 2 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Havard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. He yearns to see or hear news of his famous outlaw parents, but his grandmother refuses to tell him anything. When a woman named Dial comes to collect Che, it seems his wish has come true: his mother has come back for him. But soon, they too are on the run, and Che is thrown into a world where nothing is what it seems.

Empowering Civil Society in the Industrial Revolution 4.0 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Citizenship... Empowering Civil Society in the Industrial Revolution 4.0 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Citizenship Education and Democratic Issues (ICCEDI 2020), Malang, Indonesia, October 14, 2020 (Hardcover)
Sukowiyono, Siti Awaliyah, Max Lane, Chen Fei, Peter Carey
R2,644 Discovery Miles 26 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

ICCEDI is an international seminar that is held every two years organized by the Law and Citizenship Department, Faculty of Social Science Universitas Negeri Malang. The activities aim to discuss the theoretical and practical citizenship education that becomes needed for democracy in Indonesia and other countries with a view to build academic networks by gathering academics from various research institutes and universities. Citizenship education is an urgent need for the nation in order to build a civilized democracy for several reasons. Citizenship education is important for those who are politically illiterate and do not know how to work the democracy of its institutions. Another problem is the increasing political apathy, indicated by the limited involvement of citizens in the political process. These conditions show how citizenship education becomes the means needed by a democratic country like Indonesia. The book addresses a number of important issues, such as law issues, philosophy of moral values, political government, socio-cultural and Pancasila, and civic education. Finally, it offers a conceptual framework for future democracy. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners, governance, and other related stakeholders.

True History of the Kelly Gang (Paperback, Main - Re-issue): Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang (Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
Peter Carey 1
R291 R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Save R40 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"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 legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief and a murderer. To his own people, the lowly class of ordinary Australians, the bushranger is a hero, defying the authority of the English to direct their lives. Indentured by his bootlegger mother to a famous horse thief (who was also her lover), Ned saw his first prison cell at 15 and by the age of 26 had become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over whole towns and defying the law until he was finally captured and hanged. Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist."
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True History of the Kelly Gang (Paperback, Main - Film tie-in): Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang (Paperback, Main - Film tie-in)
Peter Carey
R250 R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Save R21 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TO BE RELEASED IN CINEMAS 28TH FEBRUARY 2020 'Extraordinary . . . So mesmerising and moving.' Mail on Sunday 'Vastly entertaining.' New York Times To the authorities in pursuit of him, Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel of adventure and heroism brings the famous bushranger wildly and passionately to life.

Oscar and Lucinda (Paperback, Main - Re-issue): Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda (Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
Peter Carey 1
R328 R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Save R47 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian times. Made for each other, the two are gamblers - one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game of love. Oscar and Lucinda is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.

The Tax Inspector (Paperback, Main - Re-issue): Peter Carey The Tax Inspector (Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
Peter Carey 2
R287 R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Save R40 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The day that Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy was also the day that the Tax Inspector, Maria Takis, arrived to begin her long-overdue audit of the family business. But this is no ordinary investigation. Maria is eight months' pregnant, Granny Catchprice is at war with her offspring, and Benny, her grandson, wants to become an angel...

Wrong About Japan (Paperback): Peter Carey Wrong About Japan (Paperback)
Peter Carey 2
R306 R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Save R48 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This stunning memoir-cum-travelogue from twice Booker winning author Peter Carey re-evaluates Japan through its attempts to understand the violent and disturbing cartoons which are so inherently concerned with Japan's rich and historic heritage. Accompanied by his son, Charley, father and son attempt to demystify the meanings hidden within magna and anime as they move towards a greater understanding of what they call their own 'real Japan.' Brilliantly reviewed in hardback with more publicity to come One of the warmest and most accessible travelogues of recent times A wonderful exploration of Japanese culture in the vein of Lost in Translation The hardback has gone on to sell extremely well with critics praising the beautiful packaging as well as the wonderful writing

Amnesia (Paperback, Main - Re-issue): Peter Carey Amnesia (Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
Peter Carey 1
R291 R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Save R40 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian Book of the Year When Gaby Baillieux, a young woman from suburban Melbourne, releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse: the system is run by an American corporation, so some 5,000 US prisons are also infected. Doors spring open. Both countries' secrets threaten to pour out, Was this intrusion a mistake, or has Gaby declared cyberwar on the US? Felix Moore - known to himself as 'Australia's last serving left-wing journalist' - has no doubt. Her act was part of the covert conflict between Australia and America that dates back decades. While Gaby goes to ground, Felix begins his pursuit of her in order to write her story; to save her, and himself, and maybe his country.

Jack Maggs (Paperback, Main - Re-issue): Peter Carey Jack Maggs (Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
Peter Carey
Sold By Readers Warehouse - Fulfilled by Loot
R200 R158 Discovery Miles 1 580 Save R42 (21%) Ships in 3 - 5 working days

London,1837. Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush townhouse in Great Queen Street? And why is Jack himself an object of such interest to Tobias Oates, celebrated author, amateur hypnotist and fellow burglar - in this case of people's minds, of their histories and inner phantoms? A thrilling story of mesmerism and possession, of dangerous bargains and illicit love against the backdrop of Victorian London.

Theft - A Love Story (Paperback, Main - Re-issue): Peter Carey Theft - A Love Story (Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
Peter Carey 2
R285 R266 Discovery Miles 2 660 Save R19 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh, Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration of art, fraud, friendship and redemption.

The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (Paperback, Main - Re-issue): Peter Carey The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
Peter Carey
R254 Discovery Miles 2 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 on the border... Here, for the first time, is the truth about Tristan Smith. This fully annotated edition follows Tristan's career from his birth in the Republic of Efica in the year 371 to the present day.

Parrot and Olivier in America (Paperback, Main - Re-issue): Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America (Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
Peter Carey 1
Sold By Readers Warehouse - Fulfilled by Loot
R275 R217 Discovery Miles 2 170 Save R58 (21%) Ships in 3 - 5 working days

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 up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America. When Olivier sets sail for America, ostensibly to study its prisons but in reality to save his neck from one more revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels together and apart - in love and politics, prisons and the world of art - Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy, in theory and in practice, with dazzling wit and inventiveness.

My Life as a Fake (Paperback, Main - Re-issue): Peter Carey My Life as a Fake (Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
Peter Carey 2
R252 R196 Discovery Miles 1 960 Save R56 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Melbourne, the late 1940s. A young conservative Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the most avant-garde of the literary magazines, he submits for publication the entire oeuvre of one Bob McCorkle, a working-class poet of raw power and sexual frankness, conveniently dead at twenty-four and entirely the product of Chubb's imagination. Not only does the magazine fall for the hoax, but the local authorities also sue its editor for publishing obscenity. At the trial someone uncannily resembling the faked photograph of the invented McCorkle, leaps to his feet. At this moment a horrified Chubb is confronted by the malevolent being he has himself manufactured...

The Chemistry of Tears (Paperback, Main - Re-issue): Peter Carey The Chemistry of Tears (Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
Peter Carey 1
R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

London 2011. Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of her lover of thirteen years - but as the mistress of a married man, she has to grieve in private. Her employer at the museum, aware of Catherine's grief, gives her a special project - to piece together both the mechanics and the story of an extraordinary automaton, commissioned in the nineteenth century by Henry Brandling to amuse his dying son. Linked by the mysterious automaton, Catherine and Henry's stories intertwine across time to explore the mysteries of life and death, the miracle and catastrophe of human invention and the body's astonishing chemistry of love and feeling.

Collected Stories (Paperback, Main - Re-issue): Peter Carey Collected Stories (Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
Peter Carey
R401 R310 Discovery Miles 3 100 Save R91 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories and this volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories not previously published in book form. The stories, persuasive and precisely crafted, reveal Carey to be a moralist with a sense of humour, a surrealist interested in naturalism and an urban poet delighting in paradox.

Bliss (Paperback, Main - Re-issue): Peter Carey Bliss (Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
Peter Carey
R283 R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Save R19 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Bliss' is the story of a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in Hell. For the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is and takes up a notebook to explore and notate the true nature of the underworld.

A Long Way From Home (Paperback): Peter Carey A Long Way From Home (Paperback)
Peter Carey 1
R289 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R18 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal car race around the continent, over roads no car can ever quite survive.

Set during the 1950s in the dying embers of the British Empire, A Long Way from Home is a thrilling high-speed story, illuminating a country's relationship with its own ancient culture, and the love made and hurt caused along the way.

The Fat Man in History (Paperback, Main): Peter Carey The Fat Man in History (Paperback, Main)
Peter Carey
R277 R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Save R42 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The stories in Peter Carey's collection are bizarre, funny and chilling. Their landscape is exotic and surreal, an ominous near-future that has the distinct feel of contemporary life. Carey's narratives are an exhilarating blend of fable, fantasy and allegory in which, as in dreams, something odd and menacing takes control. Here are societies in which people gamble for new bodies in a genetic lottery or watch apprehensively as first buildings, then parts of the landscape, and eventually their neighbours, begin to dematerialise and vanish. Here is what happens when a miniature replica of a small town and its inhabitants assumes a more compelling reality than its original or when a group of fat men, ostracised by a revolutionary government, plot its overthrow.

A Long Way From Home (Paperback, Open Market - Airside ed): Peter Carey A Long Way From Home (Paperback, Open Market - Airside ed)
Peter Carey 1
R222 R183 Discovery Miles 1 830 Save R39 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal car race around the continent, over roads no car can ever quite survive. Set during the 1950s in the dying embers of the British Empire, A Long Way from Home is a thrilling high-speed story, illuminating a country's relationship with its own ancient culture, and the love made and hurt caused along the way.

The Archive of Yogyakarta Vol 2 - Documents Relating to Economic and Agrarian Affairs (Hardcover, 1994th Ed.): Peter Carey,... The Archive of Yogyakarta Vol 2 - Documents Relating to Economic and Agrarian Affairs (Hardcover, 1994th Ed.)
Peter Carey, Mason C. Hoadley
R1,991 R1,755 Discovery Miles 17 550 Save R236 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Archive of Yogyakarta is almost unique among Asian document collections, and one cannot overestimate its significance for scholarly research into the history of Java. It forms a single corpus of records produced by the Sultan of Yogyakarta's government between 1786 and 1812, dealing with the allocation of the realm's scarce resources of men and materials. There are royal appointments, registers of the realm's physical resources, retrenchment orders, lists of military contingents, and court correspondence - but these are vastly overshadowed by an incomparable set of local accountancy records, ranging from yearly balance sheets, through receipts of tolls, taxation lists, and debt letters, to allowances for the royal family and imposts for ceremonial feasts. Complementing Volume 1 (1980), which published selected documents of political importance, Volume II considers the Archive as a whole and what it reveals about the government and the economy of Yogyakarta. Transliterations of the Javanese originals are accompanied by English synopses and notes.

Illywhacker (Paperback, Main - Re-issue): Peter Carey Illywhacker (Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
Peter Carey
R300 R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Save R17 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery travels across the Australian continent and a century in a picaresque novel full of outlandish encounters and dangerous characters. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, Illywhacker is a contemporary classic.

Emmanuel - God With Us: Reflections for Advent (Paperback): Peter Carey Emmanuel - God With Us: Reflections for Advent (Paperback)
Peter Carey
R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Archive of Yogyakarta, v. 1. Ed. P. Carey (Paperback): Peter Carey The Archive of Yogyakarta, v. 1. Ed. P. Carey (Paperback)
Peter Carey
R1,396 R774 Discovery Miles 7 740 Save R622 (45%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
De Sortibus (Hardcover): Thomas Aquinas De Sortibus (Hardcover)
Thomas Aquinas; Translated by Peter Carey; Foreword by Andrew Davison
R839 R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Save R158 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
De Sortibus (Paperback): Thomas Aquinas De Sortibus (Paperback)
Thomas Aquinas; Translated by Peter Carey; Foreword by Andrew Davison
R456 R370 Discovery Miles 3 700 Save R86 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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