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  • Published: 3 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781760896447
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $22.99

Jack Maggs





Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Award, Peter Carey's Jack Maggs is dazzlingly entertaining.

The year is 1837 and ex-convict Jack Maggs has returned illegally to London from Australia. Installing himself in the household of a genteel grocer, he attracts the attention of a cross-section of society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. Writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hypnosis. Maggs, a figure both frightening and mysteriously compelling, is so in thrall to the notion of a gentlemanly class that he’s risked his life to come back to his torturers. His task is to shed his false consciousness and understand that his true destiny lies in Australia.

  • Published: 3 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781760896447
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $22.99

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