Winner of the 1988 Booker Prize, this novel, set in Victorian England and Australia but told with a contemporary perspective, depicts the fatal and unrequited love shared by two remarkable…

As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels together and apart - in love and politics, prisons and the world of art -…

Sarah Wode-Douglas is an aristocratic woman who has made her living as the editor of the poetry magazine First Proof , until she impulsively follows a friend to Kuala Lumpur…

Peter Carey’s astonishing debut novel is a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell.

Returning to the 19th-century of his Booker Prize-winning Oscar and Lucinda , Carey fashions an utterly captivating mystery with the story of thief Jack Maggs–a recent escapee from the prison…

combines Peter Carey’s bizarre, brilliant, chilling short stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes, plus three not in either.

The Fat Man in History and Other Stories…

Wearing his ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ pyjamas, Sam Kellow sleepwalks out of the hotel room in Toronto where he is staying with his parents and wakes to find the door firmly…

Her employer at the museum, aware of Catherine’s grief, gives her a special project - to piece together both the mechanics and the story of an extraordinary automaton, commissioned in…