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....

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....

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

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

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

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....

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

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