Books by Peter Carey

The Chemistry of Tears (2012)
Forced to hide her grief when her married lover dies unexpectedly, museum curator Catherine Gehrig w...

Amnesia (2015)
Writing the biography of a cyber criminal who released a virus into Australia's prison system and al...

Theft (2007)
Reduced to living in the remote country house of his largest collector and serving as caretaker for ...

Parrot and Olivier in America (2010)
A tale loosely inspired by the life of Alexis de Tocqueville is set in the early 19th century and fo...

My Life as a Fake (2005)
Accompanying the arrogant poet, John Slater, to Malaysia, London editor Sarah Wode-Douglass finds he...

True History of the Kelly Gang (2002)
Ned Kelly, the legendary nineteenth-century Australian folk-hero, describes how he, his brother, and...

Jack Maggs (1999)
A Booker Prize-winning author presents a novel set in 1830s Dickensian London featuring a thief who ...