The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been subs... more

got here, and what we did to each other along the way. A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey s late-style masterpiece...... more

An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, a secret love story, and the fate of the warming... more

. . . Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Peter Carey s Booker prize-winning novel is a brilliant achievement - a moving love story...... more

Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia... more

An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this daz... more

politics, prisons and the world of art - Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy, in theory and in practice...... more

Peter Carey s novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both...... more

and impressarios, Peter Carey s novel is a contemporary classic....... more

finest of contemporary writers pays homage to his Victorian forebears. As Peter Carey s characters become embroiled in each...... more

if I speak false. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey gives the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly a voice so...... more

Peter Carey s astonishing first novel is a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who...... more

Written by some of today s leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where ... more

他一出生就注定是小偷，但他的兒子一定會是個紳士! 一八三七年，倫敦。 傑克.麥格斯藉著漆黑的夜色掩護，潛入了大皇后街。他絕不能被認出來，因為一旦暴露了行蹤，他就會被送上絞刑台! 他渴望見到... more

，最后又回到澳大利亞，這是一個尋根的過程，同時也是一個尋找文化身份的過程，這之間產生的沖突，實質上是帝國與殖民地之間的沖突，是新舊文化身份的沖突，而這，正是本書的意義所在。 彼得·凱里(Peter Carey)，1943年生於墨爾本市郊小鎮...... more