Peter Carey is an Australian author who has won the Man Booker prize twice. Peter Carey won the Man Booker prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda and again in 2001 for The True History of the Kelly Gang. Oscar and Lucinda is a story of a relationship based on risk, where the two partners can ill afford to lose. The True History of the Kelly Gang is an imaginative tale of a 19th century criminal and what it may have been like for a young man to coped with a fractured view of life.
Book Review:Awakening from death, Harvey Joy is convinced that he has arrived in Hell and sets about to describe his experiences in the underworld.
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Book Review:Herbert Badgery is 139 years old, or so he says, and he has lots of yarns to tell, as he would, being a confidence-trickster. This novel was shortlisted for the 1984 Man Booker Prize
Book Review:Peter Carey's take on Ned Kelly as you have never seen him before.
Book Review:Christopher Chubb has left behind him a life of deception in Melbourne. But even in Kuala Lumpur his past won`t leave him alone.