The Chemistry of Tears

By Peter Carey

Illywhacker

By 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...

Bliss

By Sir Peter Carey

True History of the Kelly Gang

By Peter Carey, Sir Peter Carey

"True History of Kelly Gang is the song of Australia, and it sings its protest in a voice at once crude and delicate, menacing and heart-wrenching. Carey gives us Ned Kelly as orphan, as Oedipus, a...

My Life as a Fake

By Peter Carey, Sir Peter Carey

True History of the Kelly Gang

By Sir Peter Carey

“I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you an...

Amnesia

By Sir Peter Carey

When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into Australia's prison computer system, hundreds of asylum-seekers walk free. And because the Americans run the prisons, the doors of some five thousand...

Amnesia

By Sir Peter Carey

The two-time Booker Prize winner now gives us an exceedingly timely, exhilarating novel—at once dark, suspenseful, and seriously funny—that journeys to the place where the cyber underworld collides...

The Tax Inspector

By PETER CAREY

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By Sir Peter Carey