Bibliography

• Articles
• Autobiographical
• Children's Fiction
• Novels
• Short Story Collections
• Screenplays
• Uncollected Works
• Unpublished Novels

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Articles:

"Am I Safe? Carey Takes A Walk on the Dark Side of the Street", Vogue Australia, 32:8, August 1988, p. 176-77, 197.

"Dear Salman ...", The Age Saturday Extra, 22 February, 1992, p. 9.

"Home and Away" in The Courier-Mail, 10 September 1994, p. wkd. 4-5; also printed as "Home" in Brick, A Literary Journal, Number 51, Winter 1995, p. 4-8.

"From an alien to his second son", HQ Magazine, Autumn 1993, p. 96-99.

"Local authors likely to suffer under PSA plan", The Sydney Morning Herald, 30th October 1989, p. 13, reprinted as "Against open slather for book imports", in The Age, 1st November 1989, p. 13; and as "Carey on Copyright", Australian Bookseller and Publisher, 69, no. 1000, December 1989-January 1990), p. 14-16.

"My Lasting Wish", The Australian Magazine, 14-5 October 1995, p. 10, 13-14, 16, 18.

"Of Coventry and Caring: Some Thoughts on Australian Publishing", National Times, 4-10 April 1986, p. 30.

"Our love affair with losers", The Herald (Melbourne), 15th September 1987, p. 11.

"Peter Carey", in "Author's Statements", Australian Literary Studies, 10, 1981, p. 191-3.

"Peter Carey on Oscar and Lucinda", in Writers in Action: The Writer's Choice Evenings, edited by Gerry Turcotte, Sydney: Currency Press, 1990, p. 1-23.

"Reluctant Credit Where Edits are Due", The Weekend Australian, 23-4 April 1994, p. rev. 4.

Speech, "Peter Carey Accepts National Book Council Award", NBC Newsletter, 13:2, 1986, p. 2-3.

"Sydney Side Up", The Sunday Times Magazine (London), 17th January 1988, p. 38-46.

"The Thin Man Makes History, Biting the Imperial Hand", (edited text of Carey's acceptance speech on winning the 1989 Miles Franklin award for Oscar and Lucinda), Australian Author, 21:3, Spring 1989, p. 17.

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Autobiographical:

A letter to our son, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1994.

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Children's Fiction:

The Big Bazoohley, St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1995; London: Faber and Faber, 1995.

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Novels:

Bliss, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1981; London: Faber and Faber, 1981.

Illywhacker, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1985; London: Faber and Faber, 1985; New York: Harper and Row, 1985.

Oscar and Lucinda, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1988; London: Faber, 1988; New York: Harper and Row, 1988 (with an additional chapter, 74).

The Tax Inspector, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1991; London: Faber, 1991; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.

The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1994; London: Faber and Faber, 1994; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

Jack Maggs, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1997; London: Faber and Faber, 1997; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

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Short Story Collections:

The Fat Man in History, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1974.

War Crimes, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1979.

The Fat Man in History, London: Faber, 1980/New York: Random House, 1980. A Selection of ten stories from the Australian editions of both The Fat Man in History (1974) and War Crimes (1979). Reprinted in 1981 as Exotic Pleasures (London: Picador).

Collected Stories, London: Faber and Faber, 1995.

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Screenplays:

Bliss, screenplay written with Ray Lawrence, directed by Ray Lawrence, Window III Productions and New South Wales Film Corporation, 1985. Published as Bliss, The Screenplay, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1986; Bliss, The Film, London: Faber and Faber, 1986.

Until The End of the World, screenplay written with Wim Wenders, directed by Wim Wenders, Road Movies, Argos Films and Village Roadshow Pictures, 1991.

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Uncollected Works:

"Contacts", in Under Twenty-five: an anthology, edited by Anne O'Donovan, Jayne Sanderson and Shane Porteous, Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1966, p. 34-6. (extract from 1964 unpublished novel).

"Structure", Manic Magazine, Volume 1, number 1, March 1970, p. 43-4.

"Interview with Yourself", Manic Magazine, Volume 1, number 1, March 1970, p. 45.

"I Know You Can Talk", Stand, 16, 1975, p. 14-24.

"The Cosmic Pragmatist", Nation Review, 8-14 September 1977, p. 14-15.

"An Abandoned Chapter", Overland, 148, Spring 1997, p. 16-17.

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Unpublished Novels:

Contacts (1964).

The Futility Machine (1966).

Wog (1967-70).

Adventures Aboard the Marie Celeste (1970-73).

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