The Tax Inspector

By Peter Carey, Sir Peter Carey

Granny Catchprice runs her family business (and her family) with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives. Her daughter Cathy would rather be singing Country & Western than selling cars,...

Fat Man in History

By Peter Carey, Sir Peter Carey

If, in some post-Marxist utopia, obesity were declared counterrevolutionary, how would a houseful of fat men strike back?  If it were possible to win a new body by lottery, what kind of people...

The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

By Peter Carey, Sir Peter Carey

From a writer whom Thomas Keneally calls "one of the great figures on the cusp of the millennium" comes a novel that conjures an entire world that suggests our own, but tilted on its axis—a w...

Jack Maggs

By Peter Carey, Sir Peter Carey

The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an il...

Bliss

By Peter Carey, Sir Peter Carey

For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy....

Illywhacker

By Peter Carey, Sir Peter Carey

In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious...

The fat man in history

By Sir Peter Carey

The fat man in history

By Sir Peter Carey

War Crimes

By Sir Peter Carey

Bliss the Screenplay

By Ray Lawrence, Sir Peter Carey