Peter Carey

In The Chemistry of Tears, Carey continues to astound with a story of love, death, and human invention....

Ned Kelly's name resonates in Australia the same way the name Jesse James does in America....

Oscar Hopkins is a high-strung preacher's kid with hydrophobia and noisy knees....

As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer....

Olivier, an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution....

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....

With scars on his back and silver in his pocket, the huge figure of Jack Maggs strides across the rich landscape of 19th century London....

Butcher Boone is an all-id all-the-time Australian painter of enormous talent and renown....

Peter Carey's brilliant, hilarious, Booker Prize-short-listed Illywhacker is the novel that first brought him to international attention....

Amnesia is a thrilling and witty journey to the place where the cyber underworld of radicals and hackers collides with international power politics....

A thrilling story of mesmerism and possession, of dangerous bargains and illicit love....

Che is a precocious young boy raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. He yearns for his famous outlaw parents....

A moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian times....

With its breathtaking scope and limitless inventiveness, My Life as a Fake is a triumph of the imagination....

Peter Carey's first novel and first Miles Franklin winner, Bliss remains a work ahead of its time. It takes dying during a heart attack for Harry Joy to realise that the life he thought was happy is actually hellish....

The late style masterpiece from Peter Carey, twice winner of the Booker Prize....

We're in Bacchus Marsh in the 1950s, with car salesmen, an early aviator, and the lives of Irene Bobs and Willy Bachhuber.....

How does a young woman from suburban Melbourne become America's public enemy number one? Find out....

A mysterious young woman sets in motion a chain of events that could make or break a failed artist and his mentally impaired brother....

Simultaneous release of a dazzling comic masterpiece that reminds us why Peter Carey is Australia's most internationally acclaimed novelist....