A Long Way from Home

As usual Peter Carey peoples the pages of his offbeat prose with all sorts of oddball personalities… This was Titch’s only fault, the belief he could have anything he wished. This is how birds fly into window glass, how women fall pregnant. In style and playfulness A Long Way from Home somewhat resem......more

4.5★ “There was no money in the Redex Trial. Two hundred lunatics circumnavigating the continent of Australia, more than ten thousand miles over outback roads so rough they might crack your chassis clean in half. . . Now we would face the killer country. We would face roads with dust two feet deep. We......more

It is perhaps to the detriment of this book that I read it on my journey to and from the announcement of the shortlist for The Republic of Consciousness Prize for UK and Irish small presses. Any book by a long established, double Booker prize winning, elderly white male was likely to lack freshness......more

A Mad Max-less romp across the Australian continent. My busy schedule really struggled to induce this text into my life--it was hard! I left it for dead, left it as a joke, left it to do so much other stuff that did not include literature. It was EASY to LEAVE. Carey is a master at making things hap......more

[URL not allowed] "Por supuesto que tenía mis propias cicatrices y miedos, mi profunda sensación de desarraigo, de que no era de aquí, de que este no era mi paisaje, de qué se me había negado mi territorio natural que con tanta precisión había representado Caspar Friedrich." Pe......more