The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and The Tax Inspector now gives readers a hero, the malformed but ferociously wilful Tristan Smith, who becomes the object of the world's byzantine political intrigues, even as he attains stardom in a bizarre Sirkus that is part passion play and p...

Illywhacker is a dazzling comic narrative, from the lips of the 109-year-old Herbert Badgery, the 'illywhacker' or confidence trickster of the title. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, peopled with aviators, car salesmen, Chinamen and impressarios, Peter Carey's novel is a contemporary cl...

Beautiful new paperback Faber Firsts edition to commemorate Faber's 80th Anniversary ...

Told by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones and his 'damaged 220-pound brother' Hugh, this book recounts their adventures and troubles after Butcher's plummeting prices and spiralling drink problem force them to retreat to northern New South Wales. This work explores themes of art, fraud, re...

Set onboard an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour-de-force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. ...

In 1878 Francis Harty, a poor farmer, said, 'Ned Kelly is the best bloody man that has ever been in Benalla, I would fight up to my knees in blood for him - I have known him for years, I would take his word sooner than another man's oath'. By the time of his hanging in 1880 a whole country would see...

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 and goings at a plush town house in Great Queen Street? In this novel, one of the finest of contemporary writer...

The day Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare-parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy, was also the day that tax inspector Maria Takis arrived to begin her overdue audit of the family business. From the author of "Oscar and Lucinda" which won the 1988 Booker Prize. ...

In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. But over the ensuing years, his audacious act of literary ventriloquism takes on a much darker resonance. ...

A volume containing the stories in "The Fat Man in History" and "War Crimes", together with three other stories not previously published in book form. The author won the 1988 Booker Prize for "Oscar and Lucinda". ...

Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, precocious son of radical Harvard students in the sixties. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long haired teenage neighbour who predicts they will come for you, ...

Forced to hide her grief when her married lover dies unexpectedly, museum curator Catherine Gehrig works in solitude to restore a nineteenth-century automaton and finds comfort in the journals of its adventurous commissioner. ...

An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, a secret love story, and the fate of the warming world are all brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time.London 2011, Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of...

Shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Award (USA) and the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize 'It is like being alive at the time Dickens was writing, I think he's that good. This novel is right up there with his best. It is an amazingly ambitious, ingenious, clever, wonderful book.' Andrew Motion, Ch...

The Booker Prize-winning author describes how his shy young son's fascination with Japanese manga and anime led father and son on an odyssey to Tokyo, where they discover the intricacies of modern-day Japanese culture, from shitamachi and the Internet to kabuki and the samurai. ...

With only 50 dollars to their name, Sam and his family arrive in Toronto to sell his mother's latest painting. Sam is locked out of his hotel room, then kidnapped, and soon finds himself entered for a "perfect child" competition, for which the prize is an enormous cheque. ...

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 many parts of her country, and so the doors of some 5000 American places of incarceration also open...

Now in its third edition, this invaluable handbook offers practical solutions to issues arising in relation to data protection law. It is fully updated and expanded to include coverage of all of the significant developments in the practice of data protection, and takes account of the wealth of guida...

Forced to hide her grief when her married lover dies unexpectedly, museum curator Catherine Gehrig works in solitude to restore a nineteenth-century automaton and finds comfort in the journals of its adventurous commissioner. ...

Written by one of the UK's leading data protection experts, this invaluable handbook offers practical solutions to issues arising in relation to data protection law within the UK and EU. Now in its fourth edition, Data Protection: A Practical Guide to UK and EU Law has been fully updated and expande...

An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, a secret love story, and the fate of the warming world are all brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time.London 2011, Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of...

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 une concession Holden, le couple décide de participer au Redex Trial, le rallye automobile tout j...

"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 sa carrière de peintre. Pourront-ils jeter de la poudre aux yeux du monde de l´Art new-yo...

Entrée au catalogue dun 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 dialoguer deux voix et deux destins. Séparés par plus dun siècle, deux êtres fous damour et de chag...