Peter Carey

When Gaby Bailleux released the Angel Worm into Australia's prison system, setting hundreds of asylum seekers free, the doors of some 5000 American prisons also opened. Was this a mistake, or had Gaby declared cyberwar on the US? Felix Moore has no doubt, and to save her, he’s going to write her biography. But how to get Gaby to co-operate?

Seven-year-old Che, abandoned by his radical Havard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, has been raised in isolated privilege by his grandmother. When a woman named Dial comes to collect Che, it seems his mother has come back for him. But soon, Che is thrown into a world where nothing is what it seems.

Jack Maggs, a criminal deported to Australia, has secretly returned to London. Why is he so interested in the activities at a plush town house?

Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive.

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 of the family business.

But this is no ordinary investigation. Maria is eight months' pregnant, Granny Catchprice is at war with her offspring, and Benny, her grandson, wants to become an angel...

CONTENT WARNING: contains explicit language, scenes of abuse, and scenes of a sexual nature

This novel magnificently brings to life Australia in the late nineteenth century, and gives a voice to bushranger Ned Kelly, Australia's own Robin Hood.. Carey gives us Kelly as orphan, horse thief, farmer, bank robber and reformer.