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(0)Peter Carey
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"From the two time Booker Prize-winning author, an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, and an irrepressibly funny portrait of the impossible friendship between a master and a servant. Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatised child of survivors of the Revolution; Parrot the son of an itinerant English printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be...
Author
Publisher
Playaway
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Writing the biography of a cyber criminal who released a virus into Australia's prison system and allowed hundreds of asylum seekers and prisoners to escape, left-wing journalist Felix Moore struggles to convey the hacker's intentions as a political protest against Australia's relationship with the United States.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country-continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000 mile race, the Redex Trial. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in south eastern Australia. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent,...
Author
Series
The Unwritten volume 7
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The War of Words is over, but the real world and fictional world are both in turmoil, and the damage seems to be spreading. When a rash of mysterious disappearances catches the eye of young detective Didge Patterson, it becomes apparent that the cult known as The Church of Tommy is involved. Can Tommy heal "The Wound" before the real and fictional worlds crumble?
Author
Series
The Unwritten volume 1
Publisher
Vertigo
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Tom Taylor's life was screwed from the word go. His father created the mega-popular Tommy Taylor boy-wizard fantasy novels. But dad modeled the fictional epic so closely to Tom that fans constantly compare him to his counterpart, turning him into a lame, Z-level celebrity. When a scandal hints that Tom might really be the boy-wizard made flesh, Tom comes into contact with a mysterious, deadly group that's secretly kept tabs on him all his life. Now,...
Author
Series
The Unwritten volume 6
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
©2012.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious cabal keeps tabs on Tom Taylor when it learns that he might be a real-life boy wizard like the star of Tom's father's famous fantasy book series.
Author
Series
The Unwritten volume 4
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
©2011.
Language
English
Description
In order to harness his extraordinary powers, Tom Taylor must sail the seas of one of the greatest stories ever told, and hunt the white whale that has left countless stories of myth and madness in its wake. Meanwhile, his friends are hunted by a dangerous new enemy-- and face identity crises of their own.
Author
Series
The Unwritten volume 5
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
©2012.
Language
English
Description
Armed with his father's journals, Tom Taylor begins a journey across the United States that also takes him into the past - to the Golden Age of a new artistic medium and the birth of a new type of hero. But following in Wilson's footsteps creates dangerous echoes.
Author
Series
The Unwritten volume 3
Publisher
Vertigo
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The fictional adventures of Tommy Taylor are the biggest publishing sensation of the still-young century. And now, years after the last volume, Tommy's creator Wilson Taylor--long missing and believed dead--is unleashing a brand-new Tommy Taylor book upon the world. There's just one problem: It's not a new Tommy Taylor book at all. This volume also includes the origin story of Lizzie Hexam.