An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, a secret love story, and the fate of the warming world are all brought to incandescent life in this ...

Illywhacker

is a dazzling comic narrative, from the lips of the 139-year-old Herbert Badgery, the 'illywhacker' or confidence trickster of the title. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, peopled with ...

From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author, an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, and an irrepressibly funny portrait of the impossible friendship between a master and a servant ...

Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on ...

'I lost my own father at 12 yrs of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young ...

Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he ...

The first novel by Peter Carey, published originally in 1981.

For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack in ...

‘When the boy was almost eight a woman stepped out of the elevator into the apartment on East 62nd Street and he recognized her straight away. It was the smell ...

Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his ‘damaged 220lb pound brother’ Hugh, Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey’s extraordinary flair for ...

In 2002, twice Booker-winning author Peter Carey travelled to Japan, accompanied by his son Charley. In this stunning memoir-cum-travelogue Carey charts this journey, as father and son look for the ...

Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included such masterworks as Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang . He is also a dazzling writer ...

The day that Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy was also the day that the Tax Inspector, Maria Takis, arrived ...

In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. But over the ensuing years his ...

This bestselling novel for children of nine-plus from Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey tells the story of nine-year Sam Kellow. His father is a compulsive gambler, pursuing the 'big bazhooley' - the ...

If you are not a citizen of Voorstand, you may not be familiar with the strange case of Tristan Smith and his illegal appropriation of Bruder Mouse. Even if you ...