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Jack Maggs
Av Peter Carey
Häftad, 2011
130 kr
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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 …
His Illegal Self
Av Peter Carey
Häftad, 2009
127 kr
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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 …
True History of the Kelly Gang
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE
Av Peter Carey
Häftad, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
147 kr
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'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 …
Oscar and Lucinda
True History of the Kelly Gang
Av Peter Carey
Inbunden, 2019
251 kr
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OSCAR AND LUCINDA is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century England and Australia where the two potential lovers lead parallel lives until chance brings them together on board ship.A narrative tangle of love, religion, gambling, commerce and colonialism culminates in a …
Data Protection
A Practical Guide to UK Law
Av Peter Carey
E-bok, 2022
1602 kr
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Now in its sixth edition, this invaluable handbook provides a complete guide to the practical application of data protection law in the UK. It is fully updated and expanded to include coverage of significant developments in the practice of data protection, and takes account of new legislation since …
Data Protection
A Practical Guide to UK Law
Av Peter Carey
E-bok, 2020
1602 kr
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Now in its sixth edition, this invaluable handbook provides a complete guide to the practical application of data protection law in the UK. It is fully updated and expanded to include coverage of significant developments in the practice of data protection, and takes account of new legislation since …
Data Protection
A Practical Guide to UK Law
Av Peter Carey
Häftad, 2026
1656 kr
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This new edition of a well-established text, Data Protection: A Practical Guide to UK Law provides a complete guide to the practical application of data protection law in the UK.Fully updated with the most recent and relevant case law, including the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 and the transition …
Data Protection
A Practical Guide to UK Law
Av Peter Carey
Häftad, 2020
2030 kr
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Now in its sixth edition, this invaluable handbook provides a complete guide to the practical application of data protection law in the UK. It is fully updated and expanded to include coverage of significant developments in the practice of data protection, and takes account of new legislation since …
Jack Maggs
A Novel
Av Peter Carey
E-bok, 2007
89 kr
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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 …
Illywhacker
Av Peter Carey
E-bok, 2010
123 kr
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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 of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and …
Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Av Peter Carey
E-bok, 2010
229 kr
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The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and The Tax Inspector now gives readers a hero, the malformed but ferociously wilful Tristan Smith, who becomes the object of the world''s byzantine political intrigues, even as he attains stardom in a bizarre Sirkus that is part passion play and …
Bliss
Av Peter Carey
E-bok, 2011
164 kr
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For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly …
Fat Man in History
Av Peter Carey
Häftad, 2002
130 kr
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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 …
Tax Inspector
Av Peter Carey
Häftad, 2004
130 kr
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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' …
Collected Stories
Av Peter Carey
Häftad, 1996
166 kr
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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 …
Bliss
Av Peter Carey
Häftad, 2004
142 kr
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Peter Carey's astonishing debut novel is a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell.
Wrong About Japan
Av Peter Carey
Häftad, 2005
129 kr
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In a stunning memoir-cum-travelogue Peter Carey charts this journey, inspired by Charley's passion for Japanese Manga and anime, and explores his own resulting re-evaluation of Japan. Although graphically violent and disturbing, the two mediums are both inherently concerned with Japan's rich …
Theft: A Love Story
Av Peter Carey
Häftad, 2007
142 kr
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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 …
Parrot and Olivier in America
Av Peter Carey
Häftad, 2011
139 kr
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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 …
Parrot and Olivier in America
Av Peter Carey
E-bok, 2010
115 kr
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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 …
Tax Inspector
Av Peter Carey
E-bok, 2010
115 kr
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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' …
Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Av Peter Carey
E-bok, 2010
115 kr
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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 …
Collected Stories
Av Peter Carey
E-bok, 2010
115 kr
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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 …
Jack Maggs
Av Peter Carey
E-bok, 2010
113 kr
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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 …
True History of the Kelly Gang
Winner of the Booker Prize
Av Peter Carey
E-bok, 2011
115 kr
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'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 …
My Life as a Fake
Av Peter Carey
E-bok, 2010
115 kr
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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 …
Illywhacker
Av Peter Carey
E-bok, 2011
115 kr
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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 …
Bliss
Av Peter Carey
E-bok, 2010
115 kr
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Peter Carey's astonishing debut novel is a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell.
