Carey, Peter – The Bell Bookshop

Oscar & Lucinda

Emma — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

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 times. Made for each other, the two are gamblers – one obsessive, the other compulsive – incapable of winning at the game of love.

Oscar and Lucinda is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.

Long Way From Home

Emma — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Longlisted for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award
Shortlisted for the 2019 Walter Scott Historical Fiction Prize

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

Set during the 1950s in the dying embers of the British Empire, A Long Way from Home is a thrilling high-speed story, illuminating a country’s relationship with its own ancient culture, and the love made and hurt caused along the way.

30 Days In Sydney

Emma — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Peter Carey captures our imagination with a brilliant and unexpected portrait of Sydney. In the midst of the 2000 Olympic games, Australia native Peter Carey returns to Sydney after a seventeen-year absence. Examining the urban landscape as both a tourist and a prodigal son, Carey structures his account around the four elements– Earth, Air, Fire, and Water– insisting on the primacy of nature to this unique Australian cityscape. As his quixotic account unfolds, Carey looks both inward into his past (as well as Sydney’s own violent history) and outward onto the city’s familiar landmarks and surroundings– the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge, the Blue Mountains– achieving just the right alchemy to tell Sydney’s extraordinary story.