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 patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the Australian national character — especially of its proclivity for tall stories and barefaced lies.

As Carey follows this charming scoundrel across a continent and a century, he creates a crazy quilt of outlandish encounters, with characters that include a genteel dowager who fends off madness with an electric belt and a ravishing young girl with a dangerous fondness for rooftop trysts.

Boldly inventive, irresistibly odd, Illywhacker is further proof that Peter Carey is one of the most enchanting writers at work in any hemisphere. Illywhacker was shortlisted for the 1985 Booker Prize and won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and The Age Book of the Year Award. It was also short-listed for the 1986 World Fantasy Award.

This is Australia's past as you won't read it in any history book. Joan pops up in all over famous moments and gives her irreverent female version of them. She remakes history in her own image and asks: who gets written into history, who gets written out, and why?

A humorous novel about Maddy, whose first day out with her newborn ends in her being arrested in Harrods for shoplifting. She is detained at Holloway Prison, where she has troubles with Edwina, the psychotic prison psychologist, her lawyer and her useless ex-lover Alex.

The Australian author is a well-known radio and TV identity and has written several novels including 'Puberty Blues' and 'Foetal Attraction'.

Tokio, 1945. Der australische Literaturprofessor Allen - Spin - Bowler trifft auf die junge Japanerin Momoko. Aus der anfänglichen Zuneigung erwächst nach und nach eine tiefe Liebe, aber die Lebensbedingungen im durch den Krieg zerstörten Japan sind äußerst schwierig. Der einzige Zufluchtsort für das ungleiche Paar ist Momokos Zimmer. Doch vor den Anfeindungen der Gesellschaft sind sie auch hier nicht gefeit und schon bald müssen sie machtlos zusehen, wie Eifersucht und Misstrauen ihre Liebe zerstören.
25 Jahre später macht sich Spin auf die Suche nach seiner großen Liebe und findet sie schließlich in London, wo sie mit ihrer Tochter lebt. Auch Momokos Liebe zu Spin ist nie ganz erloschen, doch nach einer zärtlichen Annäherung müssen beide feststellen, dass man die Vergangenheit nicht ungeschehen machen kann.

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It was one of the greatest human experiments ever undertaken: to populate an unknown land with the criminal, the unloved and the unwanted of English society. Amid conditions of brutality that paralleled those of slavery, 'The First Fleet' was sent to a place no European but the legendary Captain Cook had ever seen. Left to live or die on the hostile Australian continent, these convicts - and their equally isolated guards - occupy the centre of Colleen McCullough's compelling new epic. Richard Morgan - convicted felon and educated, intelligent, resourceful man - finds the will to survive, experience the joys of love, and finally make an incredible mark upon the new frontier.

A thoroughly researched historical saga rich in romance, adventure and unforgettable characters, Morgan's Run has the makings of a modern classic.

An American woman is summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aboriginals who call themselves "the Real People" to accompany them on a four-months-long walkabout through the Outback. While traveling barefoot with them through 1,400 miles of rugged desert terrain, she learns a new way of life, including their methods of healing, based on the wisdom of a 50,000-year-old culture. Ultimately, she experiences a dramatic personal transformation.

Following her modern classic and worldwide bestseller A Mutant Message Down Under, Marlo Morgan's long-awaited second novel is a tale of self-enlightenment about aboriginal twins separated at birth and the search for roots that reunites them from opposite sides of the globe. Message from Forever is an incredibly moving story in which the power of purity, acceptance, and openness transcends injustice and degradation, directing us to live our lives in accordance with ageless values and simple wisdom.

Ten messages of aboriginal wisdom you will explore in Message From Forever

1. Express Your Individual Creativity
2. Realize That You Are Accountable
3. Before Birth You Agreed to Help Others
4. Mature Emotionally
5. Entertain
6. Be a Steward of Your Energy
7. Indulge in Music
8. Strive to Achieve Wisdom
9. Learn Self-Discipline
10. Observe Without Judging