Peter Carey

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....

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

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

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

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....

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

Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot is the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant....

Severely afflicted, doomed never to be taller than three-foot-six, Tristan Smith faces death and danger from the first moment of his energetic and ambitious life....

Peter Carey's The Tax Inspector is a wickedly funny satire on modern life and families....

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2006.
Nominated for the Man Booker International Prize, 2007.
A mysterious young woman sets in motion a chain of events that could make or break a failed artist and his mentally impaired brother....

Following the success of Parrot and Olivier in America comes another wonderfully rich tale with historical themes from the twice Booker-winner....

An Australian literary hoax lies at the core of My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey's captivating contemplation of the art world....

Has a young Australian woman declared cyber war on the United States? Find out....

Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, the precocious son of radical Harvard students in the 60s. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents....

Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Harvard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother....

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....