Peter Carey

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

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

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

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

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....

In Melbourne in the 1950s, an arrogant young Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity.

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

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....

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

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

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

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....