Una reflexión acerca de la democracia narrada a través de la relación de amistad entre un aristócrata francés y su criado.Basado en la vida de Alexis de Tocqueville, Parrot y Olivier en América es la...

La deslumbrante nueva novela de Peter Carey, dos veces ganador del Premio Booker.Catherine Gehrig, conservadora del Museo Swinburne de Londres, ve cómo su vida se derrumba tras la muerte de su compañero...

Felix Moore, journaliste d’investigation de la vieille école, accepte le défi : enquêter sur les raisons qui ont amené la jeune hackeuse australienne Gaby Bailleux à concevoir un virus informatique pour...

Entrée au catalogue d’un géant de la littérature australienne, double vainqueur du Booker Prize (Oscar et Lucinda, 1988 et Véritable histoire du gang Kelly, 2001). Le nouveau roman de Peter Carey fait...

Bacchus Marsh, sud-est de l’Australie, 1953. Irene Bobs aime la vitesse, les véhicules de course. Son mari, Titch, se trouve être le meilleur vendeur de voitures de la région. Alors qu’il vient d’ouvrir...

Um romance profundo, ao mesmo tempo negro e divertido, de um autor que ganhou o Booker Prize por duas vezes. Uma mulher dos subúrbios de Melbourne torna-se inimiga pública dos Estados Unidos da América....

The day that Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy was also the day that the Tax Inspector, Maria Takis, arrived to begin her long-overdue audit...

London,1837. Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings...

Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian...

'I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence...'To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But...

Melbourne, the late 1940s. A young conservative Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the most avant-garde...

Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh, Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language....

Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories and...

If you are not a citizen of Voorstand, you may not be familiar with the strange case of Tristan Smith and his illegal appropriation of Bruder Mouse. Even if you are a citizen of faraway Efica, you will...

When Gaby Bailleux released the Angel Worm into Australia's prison system, allowing hundreds of asylum seekers to walk free, she also let the cat out of the bag. The Americans ran the prisons, like so...

Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Havard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. He yearns to...

An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer...

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.

Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different...

Sam Kellow is nine. His father is a compulsive gambler, pursuing the 'big bazoohley' - the jackpot to end all jackpots. But it is Sam who sets out to win it - against all the odds, he enters the Perfecto...

Longlisted for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary AwardLonglisted for the 2019 Walter Scott Historical Fiction Prize Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural...

London 2011. Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of her lover of thirteen years - but as the mistress of a married man, she has to grieve in private....

In a stunning memoir-cum-travelogue Peter Carey charts this journey, inspired by Charley's passion for Japanese Manga and anime, and explores his own resulting re-evaluation of Japan. Although graphically...

Lorsque Olivier, jeune aristocrate français, est envoyé vers le Nouveau Monde - soi disant pour étudier ses prisons, en réalité pour échapper à une nouvelle révolution – Parrot l’accompagne. Ce fils d’un...

Dans la vie de deux frères débarque une séduisante blonde, en mission pour authentifier des tableaux du célèbre peintre Jacques Leibovitz. Michael tombe fou amoureux de Marlene, dont l’influence va bouleverser...

Che, fils d'un couple d'activistes bien connus sur le campus de Harvard à la fin des années 60, habite chez sa grand-mère new-yorkaise. Reclus dans cet environnement privilégié mais isolé, il se languit...