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‘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 to his fellow ordinary Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey brings the famous bushranger wildly and passionately to life.
Peter Carey was born in Australia in 1943. He claims his birthplace of Bacchus Marsh had a population of 4,000. This fact should probably be checked. He was educated at the local state school until the age of eleven and then became a boarder at Geelong Grammar School. He was a student there between 1954 and 1960 — after Rupert…
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Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Oscar and Lucinda is Peter Carey’s Booker Prize-winning historical novel set in Victorian times.
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Twice Booker Prize Winner Peter Carey takes questions from Faber Members across the world.
A Long Way From Home is the new book the from Man Booker Prize winner