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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

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  Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey

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  Though 'Theft' lacks some of the poetry and grace of his earlier novels, Carey still manages to succeed in creating unforgettable characters, this time in the form of the Boone brothers: artist Butcher Bones and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh.

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  Illywhacker by Peter Carey

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  This epic, comic novel recounts the life of 139 year old confidence trickster Herbert Badgery, one of Carey's most vividly realised and inventive characters. Full of hilarious tales and an enormous supporting cast of characters, this is one of Carey's best works.

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  Jack Maggs by Peter Carey

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  A beautifully realised homage to Charles Dickens' 'Great Expectations'. Follows the fortunes of Jack Maggs who, deported to Australia for being a thief, makes his fortune there and returns to London 20 years later.

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  30 Days in Sydney by Peter Carey

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  Part of the excellent "Writer and the City Series" from Bloomsbury, Australia's most important living novelist writes an ebullient account of a return trip to his home city.

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  The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

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  Undoubtedly one of Carey's most dazzling books, this earned him his second Booker Prize in 2001. He brings Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous bushranger, brilliantly to life. A modern Australian classic.

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  Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey

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  Australia's greatest living novelist accompanies his teenage son to Tokyo in a quest to discover the secrets of anime. A touching work of paternal reflection that also sheds new light on contemporary Japan.

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  Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

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  This is arguably Carey's best novel and one of our absolute favourites, a sprawling, comedic and epic tale of the untold love between two extraordinary people, set in 19th century England and Australia.

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  Bliss by Peter Carey

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  One of Carey's earliest novels, "Bliss" recounts the story of advertising excutive Harry Joy, who, following a heart attack, comes back to life only to be convinced he is actually in hell. Sharply comic and satirical.

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  Collected Stories by Peter Carey

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  This collection brings together stories from 'The Fat Man in History' and four previously uncollected stories: 'Joe', 'Concerning the Greek Tyrant', 'A Million Dollars' Worth of Amphetamines' and ' A Letter to Our Son'.

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  Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey

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  Dickensian in scope and populated with a cast of eccentric, roguish individuals, Carey’s third Booker-nominated novel is a comic masterpiece. When his eponymous heroes – a conceited French aristocrat and a jaded, unkempt servant – are thrown together on a journey to the New World, they gain an insight into life at the opposite end of the human spectrum, and an unlikely friendship is born. This is both a tender portrait of two men and a dazzling reimagining of the birth of democracy.

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  The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey

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  A dazzlingly original work of fiction, woven into the fabric of historical truth. When museum conservator Catherine Gehrig learns of the death of her married lover and colleague, she is faced with the prospect of grieving in secret, until her boss gives her a special project to occupy her mind. She must piece together the history and mechanics of an eerie mechanical duck, commissioned in nineteenth-century Germany to enliven the spirits of a dangerously ill boy. As Catherine rummages through notebooks in search of clues, she begins to understand the chemistry of love and the cost of deranged genius.