Flinders University Peter Carey Website by Rebecca Vaughan.
NOTE :This site was created as part of my postgraduate study of Peter Carey's fiction (from Bliss to The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith), and is no longer updated on a regular basis. For more information about Carey's work, including more detail about his later publications, please visit
Peter Carey's own site at http://petercareybooks.com/
George Landow and the Scholarly Technology Group, at Brown University in the United States, have a large range of sites relating to Australian culture and literature as part of their "Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English" project. The main Carey page focuses on Oscar and Lucinda, and from this page you can explore a large range of information and essays regarding Carey's Booker Prize winning novel, from examinations of the symbolism of glass and water in the text, to some history of colonial Australia. It also provides a Carey timeline, although the information unfortunately ends at 1988, and also some interesting questions for the reading of Oscar and Lucinda, provided by the students of English 27 at Brown University. This site remains under construction, and some of the links are broken or incomplete. Nevertheless, it is worth exploring. The many essays on various aspects of Oscar and Lucinda are definitely worth reading, and when complete, this site will provide a comprehensive guide to this wonderful text. {http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/post/carey/careyov.html}
Peter and Mareya Schmidt run a wonderful site, "OzLit", focussing on a large range of Australian literature. Their Peter Carey page provides biographical information, a list of Carey's major works, and links to other Carey sites. {http://banyule.vicnet.net.au/cgi-shl/dbml.exe?Template=/template/ozlit/showemailsfully.dbm&name=181}
Perry Middlemiss' site, "Larrikin's Lair", has a Peter Carey page, providing biographical information, dust jacket quotes and synopses, and first paragraphs of each of the major works, up to The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith. {http://ncc1701.apana.org.au/~larrikin/lit/authors/careyp/careyp.html}
Bradley Shoop has some bibliographical information on Carey as part of his "Booker Prize Pages". {http://www.suntech.com/brad/carey.htm}
Central Queensland University has some bibliographical information on Bliss on line as part of its course "Australian Fiction and Film: 1890's to 1980's". {http://ruby.cqu.edu.au/faculty/arts/sem197/52180pc.htm}
"Eidolon: SF Online" has an extensive bibliographical listing of writers of Australian Science Fiction to 1993, including a Peter Carey page. {http://www.midnight.com.au/eidolon/biblios/careypet.htm}
Some reviews of Carey's work are also available on line:
NOTE :This site was created as part of my postgraduate study of Peter Carey's fiction (from Bliss to The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith), and is no longer updated on a regular basis. For more information about Carey's work, including more detail about his later publications, please visit
Peter Carey's own site at http://petercareybooks.com/