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as part of my postgraduate study of Peter Carey's fiction (from Bliss to The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith), and is no longer updated on a regular basis.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/
Hassall, Anthony J., Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey's Fiction, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1994.
Huggan, Graham, Peter Carey, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Krassnitzer, Hermine, Aspects of Narration in Peter Carey's Novels: Deconstructing Colonialism (Salzburg University Studies), Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, June 1995.
Lamb, Karen, Peter Carey: the Genesis of Fame, Pymble, N.S.W: Angus & Robertson, 1992.
Woodcock, Bruce, Peter Carey, Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 1996.
Ahearne, Kate, "An Interview with Peter Carey", Going Down Swinging, 1, 1980, p. 43-55.
Ahearne, Kate, "Kate Ahearne in conversation with Peter Carey", Australian Book Review, 99, 1988, p. 14-15.
Aiton, Doug, "From Bacchus Marsh to the Bright Lights", The Sunday Age, 4 August, 1991, p. 3.
Anthony, Susan, "The Tax Inspector as Hero", The Bulletin, vol.113 no.5776, 2 July 1991, p. 18.
Attwood, Alan, "Is this Man Mad?", Time, 22 February 1988, p. 54-57.
Atwood, Alan, "What the Dickens?", Good Weekend Magazine, 2nd August 1997, p. 22-8.
Baker, Candida, "Carefree Carey", The Age, 27 July, 1991, p. 3 & 6.
Baker, Candida, "Open Book", Good Weekend Magazine, 13th January 1990, p. 42-5.
Baker, John F., "Peter Carey: the acclaimed Australian has moved to New York - and to a new kind of novel", Publishers Weekly, Volume 238, Number 54, 13th December 1991, p. 37-8.
Castle, Claudia, "The Honi Soit interview: your A-Z guide to Peter Carey", Honi Soit, 7th June 1982, p. 8-9.
Cryer, Dan, "Talking with Peter Carey: Inventing Australia", Newsday, 29th January 1995.
Dare, Tim, "He bit, chewed, and found Bliss", The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 May, 1982, p. 3.
Debelle, Penelope, "Flirting with a past master", The Advertiser, 19th August 1997, p. 32.
Dessaix, Robert, "An Interview with Peter Carey", Australian Book Review, 167, December-January 1994-1995, p. 18-20.
Dutton, Geoffrey, "Carey and the cringe", The Weekend Australian, 20-21 February, 1988, p. 7.
Faulks, Sebastian, "A glass church", The Independent (U.K.), 29th October 1988, p. Weekend 31.
Flanagan, Martin, "Starring Tristan Smith", The Age Saturday Extra, 3 December 1994, p. 7.
Ford, Carolyn, "Carey's Hot on Heels of Another Booker", The Mercury, 5 September 1994, p. 31.
Fuller, Peter, "Carey gives the lie to some old lies", The Canberra Times, 21 August, 1985, p. 27.
Giuffre, Giulia, "Peter Carey Speaking", The Weekend Australian, 6-7 July, 1985, Literary Magazine p. 3.
Glover, Richard Conrad, "Peter Carey's Sydney Babylon", The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 July 1991, p. 35.
Glover, Richard, "The tallest story of them all", The Sydney Morning Herald, 29th June 1985, p. 39.
Green, Stephanie, "An Australian Author Takes US by Storm", The Canberra Times, 23 February, 1992, p. 23.
Grimes, William, "An Australian Novelist with a Full-Tilt Pace and Ferocious Humour", The New York Times, 28 January 1992, p. C11, C15.
Harding, Jo-Anne, "Carey Cruises Down the River in a Dream", The Mercury, 19 March 1988, p. 21.
Harding, Jo-Anne, "Reality? Just a touch of fantasy", The Courier-Mail Great Weekend, 27 February 1988, p. Weekend 6.
Harvey, Oliver, "Carey makes a novel switch", The Courier-Mail, 16 October 1982, p. 28.
Hawley, Janet, "How an ad man found Bliss", The Age, 26 September, 1981, p. 26.
Hayes, Susanne, "Interview with Peter Carey", Conversations audio tape series, tape one, Recorded at Adelaide Festival, 1986 and 1988.
Heyward, Michael, "Australia's literary ambassador", The Age, 25 July, 1992, p. 8.
Horin, Adele, "Carey's in the Grip of a New Novel", Times on Sunday, 24 January 1988, p. 36.
Huck, Peter, "Making of a literary giant", Sydney Morning Herald, 29 October, 1988, p. 82.
Hugo, Giles, "Carey Confronts Death and Taxes", Saturday Mercury, 3 August 1991, p. 22.
Hugo, Giles, "Peter Carey's Great Escape: Booker Prize May be Turning Point", Saturday Mercury, 5 November 1988, p. 17-8.
Ikin, Van, "Answers to Seventeen Questions: An Interview with Peter Carey", Science Fiction: a Review of Speculative Literature, 1:1, 1977, p. 30-39.
Jach, Antoni, "An Interview with Peter Carey", Mattoid, 31, 1988, p. 24-36.
Jardine, Cassandra, "Apocalypse free ... with every fifth packet.", New Fiction [London], 26, 1980, p. 4-5.
Kellaway, Kate, "Every man is a theatre", The Observer Review, 11th September 1994, p. 18.
Kemp, Peter, "Packed lunches: writer's talks", ICA audio cassette, 1994. *
Lawson, Mark, "Sniffing the Air at Home and Away", Independent on Sunday, 25 August 1991, p. 18.
Lawson, Valerie, "Peter Carey: advertising doesn't hurt him a scrap", Sydney Morning Herald, 5 September, 1981, p. 47.
Lennon, Peter, "No roots so no tripping up", The Times, 30 October 1985, p. 12.
Maddocks, John, "Bizarre Realities: An Interview with Peter Carey", Southerly, 41, 1981, p. 27-40.
Manning, Greg, "Peter Carey's latest gamble", The Book Magazine, volume 2, Number 1, 1988, p. 3-6.
Meyer, Lisa, "An Interview with Peter Carey", Chicago Review, Volume 43, Number 2, p. 76-89.
Morton-Evans, Michael, "Carey reaches a blissful peak in his literary career", The Australian, 26 July, 1984, p. 8.
Munro, Craig, "Building the Fabulist Extensions: an interview with Peter Carey", Makar, 12.1, June 1976, p. 3-12. (Excerpt printed in Australian Literary Studies, 8:2, October 1977, p. 182-7).
Neilsen, Phillip, "Excerpt From Interview: Tell Me What Colour You Think The Sky Is", Australian Literary Studies, 10, 1981, p. 191-93.
Neilsen, Phillip, "'Waiting for the Barbarians': An Interview with Peter Carey", LiNQ, 15:3, 1987, p. 66-73.
Oakley, Barry, "Gothic Splendour: Peter Carey returns to a junkyard landscape of old", The Weekend Australian, 27-28 July, 1991, p. Review 1.
O'Donohue, Barry, "Write and person", Arts National, 3:2, 1985, p. 106-7.
Riemer, A.P., "The Creation of Careyland", The Independent Monthly, 6:3, September 1994, p. 69-70.
Roberts, Mark, "Profile of Peter Carey", Australian Left Review, 108, December/January 1988/9, p. 6.
Rolfe, Patricia, "An Impatient, Rapacious Reader", The Bulletin, vol. 114 no. 5850, 28 July 1992, p. 90-1.
Ross, Jean W., "Contemporary Authors Interview", in Susan M. Trosky, ed., Contemporary Authors, A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television and Other Fields, Vol. 127, Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1989, p. 74-7.
Sayers, Stuart, "A particular bent for the bizarre", The Age, 27 October, 1979, p. 26.
Sayers, Stuart, "In pursuit of the logic", The Age, 28 September, 1974, p. 16.
Sayers, Stuart, "The glittering literary prizes", The Age, 4th March 1986, p. 11.
Sexton, David, "Interview With Peter Carey", Literary Review, 84, June 1985, p. 38-41.
Sibree, Bron, "Novel difficult to live with, difficult to write: Carey", The Canberra Times, 27 July, 1991, p. C7.
Sorensen, Rosemary, "Reputations Made and Unmade: Rosemary Sorenson Talks to Evan Green, Alex Miller and Peter Carey", Australian Book Review, 134, September 1991, p. 10-11.
Summers, Alison, "Candid Carey", The National Times, 1-7 November, 1985, p. 32-3.
Tausky, Thomas E., '"Getting the Corner Right": An Interview with Peter Carey', Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada, 4, 1990, p. 27-38.
Wachtel, Eleanor, "'We Really Can Make Ourselves Up: an Interview with Peter Carey", Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada, 9, June 1993, p. 103-5.
White, Edmund, "Putting the Land of his Mind on the Literary Map", Sunday Times, 20 March 1988, p. G8-9.
Williamson, David, "Carey's triumph: the dreamtime goes on", Times on Sunday, 28th February 1988, p. 29.
Yallop, Richard, "Carey, the Master of Human Chemistry", The Age, 29 October 1988, p. 16.
ACADEMIC ARTICLES/CHAPTERS WHICH FOCUS ON CAREY:
Author unknown, "Tradition and Duplicity: George Bowering's Caprice and Peter Carey's Illywhacker," presented at the 1988 conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand. * (The proceedings of this conference have not yet been published).
Adam, Ian, "Breaking the Chain: Anti-Saussurean Resistance in Birney, Carey and C.S. Pierce", World Literature Written in English, Vol. 29, No.2, 1989, 11-22.
Ahearne, Kate, "Peter Carey and Short Fiction in Australia", Going Down Swinging, 1, 1980, p. 7-17.
Anderson, Don, "Introduction", Bliss, The Screenplay, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1985.
Baker, Candida, Yacker: Australian Writers Talk About Their Work, Sydney and London: Picador, 1986.
Bennett, Sandy, "Carey, Jolley and Freeman - Three authors from print to celluloid", Encore, July 22 - August 4 1988, p. 20.
Bisutti, Francesca, "The Factor of Invention: Peter Carey's Real Fictions", Saggi e richerche sulle culture extraeuropee, volume 2, edited by G. Bellini, C. Gorlier, and S. Zoppi, Rome: Bluzoni, 1986, p. 61-8. *
Blaber, Ronald, and Gilman, Marvin, "Illywhacker", Roguery, the picaresque tradition in Australian, Canadian and Indian fiction, Springwood, N.S.W: Butterfly Books, 1990, p. 55-60.
Bliss, Carolyn, "Matilda on Main Street: Naturalizing Australian Literature for American Readers", Antipodes, Volume 1, Number 1, 1987, p. 27-34.
Bliss, Carolyn, "The Revisionary Lover: Misprision of the Past in Peter Carey", Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada, 6, 1991, p. 45-54.
Bliss, Carolyn, "Time and Timelessness in Peter Carey's Fiction - the Best of Both Worlds", Antipodes, Volume 9 no. 2, December 1995, p. 97-105.
Bode, Barbara, "Angels and Devils", Antipodes, Volume 9, no. 2, December 1995, p. 107-113.
Brown, Ruth, "English Heritage and Australian Culture: the Church and Literature of England in 'Oscar and Lucinda'", Australian Literary Studies, 17:2, October 1995, p. 135-40.
Burns, D.R., "Feasibility Through Fictional Ploys: Peter Carey's Accord with Stephen Potter", Overland, 137, Summer 1994, p. 39-44.
Callahan, David, "Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda and the Subversion of Subversion", Australian Studies, 4, 1990, p. 20-26.
Callahan, David, "Whose History is the Fat Man's?: Peter Carey's `The Fat Man in History", Span, no.40, April 1995, p. 34-53.
Clancy, Laurie, "Peter Carey", in A Reader's Guide to Australian Fiction, Melbourne: OUP, 1992, p. 341-5.
Daniel, Helen, "'The Liar's Lump' or 'A Salesman's Sense of History': Peter Carey's Illywhacker", Southerly, 46:2, 1986, p. 157-67.
Daniel, Helen, "Lies for Sale: Peter Carey", Liars: Australian New Novelists, Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin Books, 1988.
Daniel, Helen, "Peter Carey; The Rivalries of the Fictions", in Robert L. Ross, ed., International Literature In English: Essays on the Major Writers, Chicago and London: St. James Press, 1991.
Daniel, Helen, "Peter Power", The Independent Monthly, July 1991, Vol. 3 no. 1., p. 39-40.
DaSilva, Matthew, "Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda", Outrider, December 1989, 6:2, p.148-59.
Dixon, Robert, "Closing the Can of Worms: Enactments of Justice in Bleak House, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab and The Tax Inspector", Westerly, 4, Summer 1992, p. 37-45.
Dovey, Teresa, "An Infinite Onion: Narrative Structure in Peter Carey's Fiction", Australian Literary Studies, 11:2, October 1983, p. 195-204.
Edwards, Brian, "Deceptive Constructions: The Art of Building in Peter Carey's Illywhacker", Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada, no. 4, Fall, 1990, p. 39-56.
Fletcher, M.D., "Post-Colonial Peter Carey", Span, 32, 1991, p. 12-23.
Fletcher, M.D., "The Theme of Entrapment in Peter Carey's Fiction", Australian Literature Today, edited by R.K. Dhawan and David Kerr, New Delhi: Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies, 1993, p.74-79.
Gelder, Ken, and Salzman, Paul, "Other Alternatives: Speculative Fiction", The New Diversity: Australian Fiction, 1970-88, Melbourne: McPhee Gribble Publishers, 1989, p. 113-39.
Gelder, Ken, and Salzman, Paul, "Dialogues with History", The New Diversity: Australian Fiction, 1970-88, Melbourne: McPhee Gribble Publishers, 1989, p. 140-65.
Hassall, Anthony J., "Telling Lies and Stories: Peter Carey's Bliss", Modern Fiction Studies, 35, 1989, p. 637-53. (Republished as Chapter 4 of Hassall, Anthony J., Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey's Fiction, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1994).
Hassall, Anthony J., "The Weatherboard Cathedral: Images of the Church in Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda", Bruce Merry, ed., Essays in Honour of Keith Val Sinclair: An Australian Collection of Modern Language Studies, Townsville: James Cook University Press, 1991, p. 193-200.
Huggan, Graham, "Is The (Günter) Grass Greener On The Other Side? Oskar and Lucinde In The New World", World Literature Written in English, 30:1, Spring 1990, p. 1-10.
Ikin, Van, "Peter Carey: The Stories", Science Fiction: a Review of Speculative Literature, 1:1, 1977, p. 19-29.
Ikin, Van, "Peter Carey", in Contemporary Novelists, edited by L. Henderson, Chicago: St. James Press, 1991, 5th edition, p. 176-7, and 6th edition, edited by Susan Windisch Brown, 1996, p. 180-1.
Indyk, Ivor, "Carey Whacker", The Independent Monthly, 3:1, 1991, p. 39.
Kane, Paul, "Postcolonial/Postmodern: Australian Literature and Peter Carey", World Literature Today, 67:3. 1993, p. 519-2.
Krauth, Nigel, "Peter Carey: A Portrait of Electricity", Australian Book Review, 133, 1991, p. 18-19.
Manning, Greg, "Reading Lesson: 'The Fat Man in History', Teaching and Deconstructive Practice", Span, 21, 1985, p. 38-55.
McCluskey, Phil, "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the Outback: Contextualizing a Structural Magic Realism", Span, 36:1, October 1993, p. 88-94.
McSherry, Bernadette, "Power and Subjugation: Australian Society in the Fiction of David Ireland and Peter Carey", Melbourne Journal of Politics, 15, 1983-4, p. 82-90.
Mellors, John, "Moral Imperatives: The fiction of Peter Carey", London Magazine, 31:7-8, 1991, p. 89-94.
Monaghan, Peter, "Illywhacker", in Magill, Frank N., ed., Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series, Pasadena, California: Salem Press, p. 794-8.
Muecke, Stephen, "Wide open Spaces: Horizontal Readings of Australian Literature", New Literatures Review, 16, 1988, p. 1-17.
Myers, David, "Born Again in the Garden of Eden", in Bleeding Battlers from Ironbark: Australian Myths in Fiction and Film: 1890s-1980s, Rockhampton: Capricornia Institute, 1987, p. 147-60.
Natale, Antonella Riem, "Harry Joy's Children: The Art of Story Telling in Peter Carey's Bliss", Australian Literary Studies, 16:3, May 1994, p. 341-47.
Ommundsen, Wenche, "Narrative Navel-Gazing Or How To Recognize a Metafiction When You See One", Southern Review, 22:3, November 1989, p. 264-74.
Pana, Irina, "The Tomis Complex: Versions of Exile in Australian Literature", World Literature Today, 67:3, Summer 1993, p. 523-32.
Parker, Peter, ed., The Reader's Companion to the Twentieth-Century Novel, London: Fourth Estate/Hellicon, 1994.
Petersen, Kirsten Holst, "Gambling on Reality: A Reading of Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda", in Giovanna Capone, ed., European Perspectives: Contemporary Essays on Australian Literature, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1991, p. 107-16. ("A special issue of Australian Literary Studies, 15:2").
Ross, Robert, "'It Cannot Not Be There': Borges and Australia's Peter Carey", Borges and His Successors: The Borgesian Impact on Literature and the Arts, edited by Edna Aizenberg, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1990, p. 44-58.
Ryan, Sue, "Metafiction in Illywhacker: Peter Carey's renovated picaresque novel", Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 14, 1, 1991, p. 33-40.
Ryan-Fazilleau, Suzan, "One-Upmanship in Peter Carey's Short Stories", The Journal of the Short Story in English, 16, 1991, p. 51-63.
Schmidt-Haberkamp, Barbara, "Wider den Pauschaltourismus der Literatur: Peter Carey's australisches Panopitkum Illywhacker", Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 17, 1, 1992, p. 71-82. * [In German].
Sharrad, Paul, "Responding to the Challenge: Peter Carey and the Reinvention of Australia", Span, 25, 1987, p. 37-46.
Stead, C.K., "Careyland", Scripsi, 5:2, 1989, p. 3-8.
Stone, Les, "Peter Carey", in Susan M. Trosky, ed., Contemporary Authors, A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television and Other Fields, Vol. 127, Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1989, p. 72-4.
Strauss, Jennifer, "Empire, History and Other Grand Illusions in Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda", Aspects of Commonwealth Literature, 1, L. Gunner, ed., London: University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies (collected seminar papers), 1990, p. 97-107.
Tate, Trudi, "Unravelling the feminine: Peter Carey's 'Peeling'", Meanjin, Volume 46, Number 3, 1987, p. 394-99.
Thwaites, Tony, "More tramps at home: seeing Australia first", Meanjin, Volume 46, Number 3, 1987, p. 400-09.
Turcotte, Gerry, ed., Writers In Action, The Writer's Choice Evenings, Sydney: Currency Press, 1990.
Turner, George, "Science Fiction, Parafiction and Peter Carey", Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, 10:1, 1988, p. 15-21.
Turner, Graeme, "American Dreaming: The Fictions of Peter Carey", Australian Literary Studies, 12:4, 1986, p. 431-41.
Turner, Graeme, "Nationalising the Author: the Celebrity of Peter Carey", Australian Literary Studies, 16:2, October 1993, p. 131-9.
Willibanks, Ray, "Peter Carey", Speaking Volumes: Australian writers and their work, Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin Books, 1991.
Woolfe, Sue, and Grenville, Kate, eds., "Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda", Making Stories, How ten Australian novels were written, St. Leonards: Allen and Unwin, 1993.
OVERVIEW ARTICLES/CHAPTERS IN WHICH CAREY IS INCLUDED:
Anderson, Don, "In Short, Sir, That's What These Past 10 Years Have Been About", Sydney Morning Herald, 30 December 1989, p. 41.
Batarde, Edward, "Australian Literature: A Toddler in the Marketplace", Australian Book Review, no.112, July 1989, p.18-19.
Beer, Gillian, "The reader's wager: lots, sorts, and futures" (F. W.Bateson Memorial Lecture), Essays in Criticism, Volume 40, Number 2, April 1990, p. 99-123.
Bennett, Bruce, "Australian Experiments in Short Fiction", World Literature Written In English, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1976, 359-66.
Buckrich, Judith Raphael, "Past, Future and Present", Overland, no.133, Summer 1993, p. 8-14.
Burns, David, The Directions of Australian Fiction, 1920-1974, Melbourne: Cassell Australian, 1975.
Clunies-Ross, Bruce, "Lazlo's Testament; or, Structuring the Past and Sketching the Present in Contemporary Short Fiction, mainly Australian", Kunapipi, 1:2, 1979, p. 110-23.
Clunies-Ross, Bruce, "Some Developments in Short Fiction, 1969-1980", Australian Literary Studies, 10, 1981, p. 165-180.
Edwards, Brian, "Definition and Exchange: Australian Fiction 1988-90", Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada, 8, December 1992, p. 165-73.
Gelder, Ken, "Uncertainty and Subversion in the Australian Novel: Recent Fiction in a Framework", Pacific Quarterly Moana, 4:4, 1979, p. 437-44.
Gelder, Ken, "History, Politics and the (Post) Modern: Receiving Australian Fiction", Meanjin, 47, 1988, p. 551-9.
Grenville, Kate, "From The Getting of Wisdom to Illywhacker: The Library and Our Literary Heritage", Australian Library Journal, February 1989, p. 55-69. Originally published in Living Together: Proceedings of the 25th LAA Conference, Sydney: Library Association of Australia, p. 562-81.
Harris, M., "Comment", The Bulletin, 2 December 1980, p. 90.
Harrison-Ford, Carl, "How good is the boom in Australian fiction?", The Australian Author, 7:2, April 1975, p. 4-10.
Holgate, Ben, "A Culture Still Trying to Cure its Pimples", Sydney Morning Herald, 29 September 1995, p. 17.
Indyk, Ivor, "The Past In Present Writing", Memory, a special issue of Southerly, 51:3, 1991, p. 238-51.
Irvine, Andrew, "Essence and Excrescence: Suggestions of Aboriginality in Some Recent Australian Writing", Hermes Papers, 1990, p.32-37. *
Jose, Nicholas, "Possibilities of Love in Recent Australian Short Stories", Island Magazine, 20, Spring 1984, p. 30-3.
Lawson, Alan, and Goodwin, K.L., "The Writing Process", The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature, edited by Ken Goodwin and Alan Lawson, South Melbourne, Vic: Macmillan, 1990, p. 377-382.
Lewis, Peter, "The Advantages of Distance: Recent Australasian Fiction", Stand, 25:2, 1984, p. 64-70.
Loiterton, Peter, "The Australian Short Story: from Federation to Modern Times", Redoubt, 18, 1994, p. 129-33.
MacLeod, Mark, "The Year That Was: Australia", Kunapipi, 10:3, 1988, p. 76-9.
Muller, Laurie, "Publishing in Crisis", Australian Bookseller and Publisher, December 1985, p. 12-4.
O'Hearne, D.J., "A Bumper Crop", Fine Line, 5, 1989, p. 12-17.
Pierce, Peter, "Finding Their Range: Some Recent Australian Novels", Meanjin, 40:4, December 1981, p. 522-8.
Pierce, Peter, "Preying on the Past: Contexts of Some Recent Neo-Historical Fiction", Australian Literary Studies, 15:4, October 1992, p. 304-12.
Quartermaine, Peter, "The Commonwealth Comeback", The Times (Higher Education Supplement), 12 February 1982, p. 11.
See, Carolyn, "Why Australian Writers Keep Their Heads Down", New York Times Book Review, 14th May 1989, p. 1, 35-7.
Smouha, Diana, "U.S. Reporting", Australian Book Review, 78, February-March 1986, p. 36-7.
Sorensen, Rosemary, "The Pick of the Crop", The Sunday Age (Agenda), 30th July 1995, p. 10.
Stewart, Annette, "Recent Australian Fiction", World Literature Written in English, 22, 1983, p. 212-23.
Turner, George, "Parentheses: Concerning Matters of Judgement", Meanjin, Volume 48, Number 1, 1989, p. 195-204.
Turner, Graeme, "Complications and Confusions", National Fictions, Literature, Film and the Construction of Australia Narrative, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986.
Webby, Elizabeth, "The Long March of Short Fiction: A Seventies Retro Spective", Meanjin, Volume 39, Number 1, April 1980, p. 127-33.
Wilding, Michael, "Australia", in Bruce King, ed., The Commonwealth Novel Since 1960, London: Macmillan, 1991, p. 19-32.
Wilhelmus, Tom, "Knowing", Hudson Review, 41, 1988, p. 548-56.
ARTICLES IN WHICH CAREY IS JUST MENTIONED:
Hefner, Robert, "Writers Who Wrote About Other Writers", The Canberra Times, 3 October 1993, p. 28.
Kennedy, Louise, "Frankly Speaking", The Canberra Times, 23 August 1992, p. 23.
Lawson, Sylvia, " Fifth Column Letter from Paris: With a Message from Mt Isa", Age Monthly Review, June 1989, p. 12-3.
Lohrey, Amanda, "The dead hand of orthodoxy", Island Magazine, 27, 1986, p. 19-21.
Moorhouse, Frank, "What happened to the short story?", Australian Literary Studies, 8:2, 1977, p. 179-82.
Thomas, Mark, "Frank Moorhouse", in Australia in mind: thirteen influential Australian thinkers, Petersham, N.S.W.: Hale & Iremonger, 1989, p. 164-178.
Wyndham, Susan, "Pained by the Pangs of Rebirth", The Weekend Australian, 27-8 May, 1989, p. wkd. 10.
Adamson, Robert, "Maps for possible films", The Australian, 21st September 1974, p. 23.
Clunies-Ross, Bruce, "Some Developments in Short Fiction, 1969-1980", Australian Literary Studies, Volume 10, Number 2, 1981, p. 165-180.
Gilbey, David, "Experiments in Narrative", Southerly, 37, 1977, p. 461-74.
Gillen, Paul, Review of The Fat Man in History, in The Good Reading Guide, compiled by Helen Daniel, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1989, p. 38.
Green, W., Review of The Fat Man in History, Westerly, Volume 19, Number 4, 1975, p. 73-6.
Harrison-Ford, Carl, "New Australian Fiction", Stand, Volume 16, Number 3, 1975, p. 43-4.
Kiernan, Brian, "Short Story Chronicle, 1974", Meanjin, Volume 34, Number 1, Autumn 1975, p. 34-39.
Kiernan, Brian, "The New Wave of Short Story Writers", The National Times, 2-7 August 1976, p. 36-7.
MacLeod, N.J., "Organism or Alienation", Makar, Volume 10, Number 3, 1975, p. 41-3.
McConchie, Rod, "The Trendy and the True", Overland, 60, 1975, p. 83-5.
Page, Geoff, "An Ambiguous Kind of Fantasy", The Canberra Times, 7th February, 1975, p. 9.
Rose, Douglas, "Curious and Fantastic", The Courier-Mail, 19th October 1974, p. 17.
Smith, Graeme, Review of The Fat Man in History, in The Good Reading Guide, compiled by Helen Daniel, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1989, p. 38-9.
Stewart, Douglas, "Promising first fruits", The Sydney Morning Herald, 19th October 1974, p. 13.
Sutherland, J., "Division Street", Times Literary Supplement, 9th April 1976, p. 445.
Vines, David, Review of The Fat Man in History, Blacksmith: a magazine of literature and the arts, 2, Winter 1975, p. 54.
Wood, Marylin, Review, The National Times, 21-26 October 1974, p. 25.
War Crimes:
Burns, D.R., "Tales of Imagination and Realistic Horror", Australian Book Review, April 1980, p. 20-1.
Clancy, Laurie, "A Year of Varietals", Overland, 84, 1981, p. 26-30.
Dutton, Geoffrey, "A 'crime' that is utter creativity", The Bulletin, 4 December 1979, p. 66-7.
England, Katherine, "Stories to Make You Shiver", The Advertiser, 22nd December 1979, p. 17.
Fabre, Michel, "Vignettes", CRNLE Reviews Journal, 1, 1980, p. 72-6.
Halligan, Marion, "Stories For Running The Emotional Gamut", Canberra Times, 22nd December, 1979, p. 13.
Heseltine, Harry, Review of War Crimes, in The Good Reading Guide, complied by Helen Daniel, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1989, p. 39.
Hughes, Karen, "Sweat-filled nights in a mad world", The Weekend Australian Magazine, 1-2 December 1979, p. 12.
Johnston, Elizabeth, "Love forms a basis for war crimes", The Australian, 2 October 1981, p. 10.
Legasse, Jim, Review of War Crimes, Westerly, Volume 25, Number 2, 1980, p. 122-4.
Neilsen, Phillip, Review of War Crimes, Image, Volume 3, Number 4, 1979, p. 52-3. *
Neville, Jill, "Written In Rage", The Sydney Morning Herald, 13th October 1979, p. 20.
Pierce, Peter, "Future nightmare", The National Times, 10th November 1979, p. 46.
Radic, Leonard, Letter to the editor, The Age, 31st January 1980, p. 10.
Riddell, Elizabeth, "Carey's Short Stories", 24 Hours, Volume 4, Number 11, 1979, p. 79.
Stretton, Andrea, Review of War Crimes, in The Good Reading Guide, complied by Helen Daniel, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1989, p. 39.
Tittensor, John, "Crimes in the name of art", The Age, 19 January 1980, p. 26.
Tittensor, John, Letter to the editor, The Age, 5 February 1980, p. 10.
The Fat Man In History (1980 Faber edition comprising ten stories selected from the original The Fat Man In History and War Crimes):
Ackroyd, Peter, "Galactic Races", The Sunday Times (UK), 19th October 1980, p. 42.
Lewis, Peter, "From underground", Times Literary Supplement, 31st October 1980, p. 1240.
Mellors, John, "Secret Dreams", London Magazine (new series), Volume 20, Numbers 8-9, 1980, p. 116-7.
Thompson, Paul, "Murky Spaces", New Statesman, 24th October 1980, p. 26.
Toomey, Phillipa, "Peter Carey's refreshment", The Times, 27th October 1980, p. 6.
Van Schaick, P., Review, UNISA English Studies, Volume 19, Number 2, 1981, p. 53.
Exotic Pleasures (British paperback edition of The Fat Man In History):
Author unknown, Review of Exotic Pleasures, Science Fiction, Volume 4, Number 1, March 1982, p. 45.
Epps, Garrett, Review of Exotic Pleasures, Washington Post, 11th September 1980, p. D13.*
Kermode, Frank, "Knowing", London Review of Books, Volume 3, Numbers 22/23, 1981, p. 17.
Bliss:
Author unknown, Review of Bliss, The New Yorker, Volume 58, 23rd August 1982, p. 92.
Barnes, Rory, "Salvation on Bog Onion Road", The National Times, 11-17 October 1981, p. 42.
Burns, Graham, "Romantic pursuits", Australian Book Review, 41, 1982, p. 27-9.
Carter, David, Review of Bliss, in The Good Reading Guide, compiled by Helen Daniel, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1989, p. 40.
Cooke, Judy, "Paradise", New Statesman, 20th November 1981, p. 22.
Durrant, Digby, "Colonial Capers", London Magazine, Volume 21, Number 11, 1982, p. 97-100.
England, Katherine, "Harry, Hell and Blissful Barbara", The Advertiser, 24th October 1981, p. 25.
Gelder, Ken, "Bliss and Punishment", CRNLE Reviews Journal, 1, 1983, p. 46-8.
Halligan, Marion, "Archetypal Characters and Black Humour", The Canberra Times, 16th January 1982, p. 16.
Kermode, Frank, "Knowing", London Review of Books, Volume 3, Numbers 22/23, 1981, p. 17.
McKernan, Susan, "Recent Fiction", Overland, 88, July 1982, p. 56-9.
Neilsen, Phillip, "Moral Fable of a Good Bloke", Image, 5:1, 1981, p. 21-2. *
Neville, Jill, "Carey leaps crannies in a single bound", The Sydney Morning Herald, 10th October 1981, p. 44.
Pierce, Peter, "Finding Their Range: Some Recent Australian Novels", Meanjin, 40, 1981, p. 522-8.
Reynor, Richard, Review of Bliss, City Lights, no date, p. 33. *
Riddell, Elizabeth, "Short story writer makes it as novelist", The Bulletin, 6th October 1981, p. 68.
Roberts, Mark, "Peter Carey's First Novel", Going Down Swinging, 5, 1982, p. 69-72. *
Ryle, John, "Magic and poison", Times Literary Supplement, 20th November 1981, p. 1350.
Smith, Margaret, "Marvellous moment in hell", The Weekend Australian Magazine, 7-8 November 1981, p.12.
Smorlowe, Jill, with Carl Robinson, "Literary High Down Under", Newsweek, 10th May 1982, p. 46.
Stewart, A.M., "Unpneumatic Bliss", Quadrant, Volume 26, Number 6, 1982, p. 87-8.
Tranter, John, "Hell without logic loses credibility", The Age, 3rd October 1981, p. 27.
Bliss (Film):
Corliss, Richard, "Rule Insanity", Time, 17th March 1986, p. 47.
Hall, S., "A result that justified the risks", The Bulletin, 24th September 1985, p. 156.
Jillett, Neil, "A Flamboyantly Stylish Invitation to Seduction", The Age, 19th September 1985, p. 14.
Macdonald, D., "'Bliss' comedy with substance and impressive credits", The Canberra Times, 23rd October 1985, p. 31.
MacDonald, M., "At last, a local product that shines", The Courier Mail Great Weekend, 2nd November 1985, p. 9.
Williams, Evan, "The Living Hell of Harry Joy", The Weekend Australian Magazine, 14-15 September 1985, p. 13.
Illywhacker:
Barkham, John, Review of Illywhacker, The American Review, 18th August 1985, p. 16. *
Captain McCrae and Captain Call, "Briefly noted", The New Yorker, Volume 61, Number 4, 11th November 1985, p. 154, 156.
Clancy, Laurie, "Some beautiful lies: Our history mythologised", Australian Book Review, 73, 1985, p. 14-5.
Daniel, Helen, "Tangles of Dream and Deception", Top Shelf: Supplement to Australian Book Review, 1991, p. 21. *
Dutton, Geoffrey, "Unlocking the showman's 'beautiful lies'", The Bulletin, 16th July 1985, p. 90.
Dutton, Geoffrey, Review of Illywhacker, in The Good Reading Guide, complied by Helen Daniel, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1989, p. 40.
Duwell, Martin, "The lie of the land", Overland, 101, 1985, p. 92-4.
England, Katherine, "Against all odds - a celebration", The Advertiser Saturday Review, 6th July 1985, p. 7.
England, Katherine, Review of Illywhacker, in The Good Reading Guide, complied by Helen Daniel, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1989, p. 40.
Flanagan, Joan, "A Book Devoted to a Distant Liaison", The Age, 26th April 1986, p. 11.
Goldsworthy, Peter, "The Novella in Illywhacker", Island Magazine, 24, Spring 1985, p. 56-7.
Halligan, Marion, "Peter Carey's palace of delights", The Canberra Times, 24th August 1985, p. B2.
Hanrahan, John, "A dealer in dreams, visions images and lies", The Age Saturday Extra, 6th July 1985, p. 14.
Hanrahan, John, "Abbreviations", Australian Book Review, August 1985, p. 39.
Herbert, Hugh, "After writing about hell, Carey turns to Australia", The National Times, 26th April - 2nd May 1985, p. 31.
Hislop, Andrew, "Whoppers and warnings", Times Literary Supplement, 3rd May 1985, p. 492.
Hutchinson, Paul, Review of Illywhacker, Library Journal, Volume 110, Number 13, August 1985, p. 113.
Ikin, Van, "Mixed Blessings", Phoenix Review, 1, 1986/7, p. 125-7.
Jacobson, Howard, "Dirty Very Old Man", New York Times Book Review, 17 November 1985, p. 15.
Keppert, L.V., "Tales from the bizarre frontier", The Sun-Herald, 7 July 1985, p. 104.
Lewis, Peter, "Ratbags and others", London Magazine, Volume 25, Numbers 1-2, 1985, p. 148-52.
Lewis, Roger, "Fairy tales", New Statesman, 109, 19 April 1985, p. 32-4.
Masters, Olga, "Illywhacker", Fremantle Arts Review, Volume 1, Number 1, January 1986, p. 12-3. (Republished in Masters, Olga, Olga Masters Reporting Home: Her Writings as a Journalist, edited by Deirdre Coleman, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1990, p. 103-6).
Mellors, John, "Unhappy Women", The Listener, 25th April 1985, p. 27.
Mitchell, Adrian, "Weaving a tangled web of lovely lies", The Weekend Australian Magazine, 6-7 July 1985, p. 15.
Nesbitt, W.S., Review of Illywhacker, Northern Gebo, 5th December 1985, n. pag. *
Nicholson, J., "Aussie conmen, Tuscan trendies", The Times, 18th April 1985, p. 15.
Pierce, Peter, "I dips me lid to a glorious vagabond", The National Times, 5-11 July, 1985, p. 30.
Profumo, David, "Beating about the Bush", Books and Bookmen, Number 355, May 1985, p. 35.
Semmler, Clement, "Carey: an outrageous talent", The Courier-Mail, 27th July 1985, p. 37.
Sexton, David, "Whoppers Galore", The Literary Review, April 1985, p. 52-3.
Smelt, Phillip, Review of Illywhacker, British Book News, June 1985, p. 361.
Spice, Nicholas, "Phattbookia Stupenda", London Review of Books, 18th April 1985, p. 20-1.
Steinberg, Sybill, "Illywhacker", Publisher's Weekly, Volume 227, Number 22, 31st May 1985, p. 47.
Stewart, Annette, "Peter Carey's 'Illywhacker'?", Quadrant, Volume 29, Number 12, December 1985, p. 86-7.
Thorne, Tim, Review of Illywhacker, in The Good Reading Guide, compiled by Helen Daniel, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1989, p. 40-1.
Webby, Elizabeth, "Illywhacker: A great short story trapped in a fat novel", The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 July 1985, p. 47.
Oscar and Lucinda:
Anderson, Don, "Peter Carey does a wonderful thing", The Sydney Morning Herald, 20th February 1988, p. 71.
Bainbridge, Beryl, Review of Oscar and Lucinda, The New York Times Book Review, 29th May 1988, p. 1.
Beston, John, Review of Oscar and Lucinda, Choice [US], October 1988, p. 310.
Brady, Veronica, Review of Oscar and Lucinda, in The Good Reading Guide, compiled by Helen Daniel, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1989, p. 41.
Carmen, Greg, "Bellingen Valley Focus of Carey's Best Seller", Coffs Harbour Advocate, 3 June 1988, p. 32. *
Charlton, Peter, "A lengthy assault on the imagination", The Courier-Mail Great Weekend, 27th February 1988, p. 6.
Diwell, Stuart, "Carey's Fine Epic Flawed but Style is Truly Amazing", The Mercury, 16th April 1988, p. 18.
Dyer, Geoff, "The long, long love affair", New Statesman, Volume 115, Number 2975, 1st April 1988, p. 28.
Edmond, Rod, "From The Victorian To The Post-Colonial Novel", Australian Studies, 3, 1989, p. 88-95.
England, Katherine, "A Triumph of Audacity Over Incongruity", The Advertiser, 20th February 1988, p. 8.
Enright, D.J., "People in glass churches", Listener, 31st March 1988, p. 29.
Gleeson, Shenagh, "Classic Carey Well Worth Waiting For", Waikato Times, 2 July 1988, n. pag. *
Graebner, Laurel, "Belief, the ultimate gamble", The New York Times Book Review, 29th May 1988, p. 19.
Gray, Paul, Review of Oscar and Lucinda, Time, Volume 131, Number 24, 13th June 1988, p. 75.
Gross, John, "Child of Chance: How Pudding Led to Priesthood", New York Times, 24th May 1988, p. C20.
Harris, Margaret, "Eminent Victorians", Southerly, 49, 1989, p. 109-13.
Hock, Peter, "Australia does not give a stuff", Billy Blue Magazine, 101, Autumn 1988, p. 20-1. *
Jacobson, Howard, "A wobbly odyssey", The Australian Weekend Magazine, 20-21 February 1988, p. 13.
Jurrist, Charles, "Peter Carey's novel does justice to Oscar & Lucinda", Antipodes, Volume 2, Number 2, 1988, p. 127-8.
Liverani, Mary Rose, "Books for our time", Overland, 110, 1988, p. 70-2.
McWilliams, Tom, "Bet on It", New Zealand Listener, 30 April 1988, p. 66. *
Nelson, Penelope, "Nostalgia Wry and Vivid", The Weekend Australian, 3-4 September 1988, p. weekend 14.
Nelson, Penelope, Review of Oscar and Lucinda, in The Good Reading Guide, compiled by Helen Daniel, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1989, p. 41.
Nicholls, Glen, Review of Oscar and Lucinda, Lot's Wife, 4, 1988, p. 12. *
O'Hearn, D.J., "Plotting 2, a Quarterly Account of Recent Fiction", Overland, 114, May 1989, p. 52-7.
Ommundsen, Wenche, "Historical fabrications and home truths", Mattoid, Volume 31, Number 1, 1988, p. 73-6. *
Pierce, Peter, "Generous embrace of hope-filled days", The Age Saturday Extra, 20th February 1988, p. 11.
Porter, Peter, "Puritan gambles", The Daily Telegraph, 26th October 1988, p. 18.*
Richey, Norma Jean, Review of Oscar and Lucinda, World Literature Today, Volume 63, Number 3, Summer 1989, p. 534.
Riddell, Elizabeth, "Desire, gambling and glass", Australian Book Review, 98, 1988, p. 14-5.
Roberts, Mark, "Carey builds his stature on a glass church", The Times on Sunday, 14th February 1988, p. 32.
Roberts, Mark, Review of Oscar and Lucinda, in The Good Reading Guide, compiled by Helen Daniel, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1989, p. 41-2.
Sage, Lorna, "Backwards into destiny", Times Literary Supplement, Number 4435, 1st April 1988, p. 363.
Slavin, John, "Glass Bead Game: Peter Carey's 19th Century Novel", Age Monthly Review, October 1988, p. 5-6.
Stewart, Annette, "The Booker Prize", Quadrant, Volume 32, Number 12, 1988, p. 66-7.
St. John, Edward, Review of Oscar and Lucinda, Magill's Literary Annual, 1989, p. 626-9. *
Stoyle, Rosemary, "A Writer Whose Light Shines Forth Among Men", Literary Review, April 1988, p. 5.
Strumpf, Edna, "A Scandalous Relationship in 19th Century Australia", Philadelphia Enquirer, 25th May 1988, p. 8. *
Taylor, D.J., "Stained glass", The Independent, 31st March 1988, p. 12.
Thomas, Mark, "Energy, invention, swamped by detail", The Canberra Times, 27th February 1988, p. B2.
Trefley-Deutch, Maria, "Oscar and Lucinda, Sidney and Les", Phoenix Review, 3, 1988, p. 99-101.
Tressider, Megan, "The Literary Wizards of Oz Cash In", Sunday Telegraph (U.K.), 30th October 1988, n. pag. *
Steinberg, Sybil, Oscar and Lucinda (Review), Publishers Weekly, Volume 233, Number 17, 29th April 1988, p. 66.
Windsor, Gerard, "Peter Carey's old-fashioned special effects", The Bulletin, 23rd February 1988, p. 69-70.
Zijistra, Maria, "The Latest in Recalling Oz History", Melbourne Times, 6th April 1988, n. pag. *
The Tax Inspector:
Inside cover advertisement, Australian Book Review, October 1991.
Author unknown, Review of The Tax Inspector, Idiom, Volume 5, Number 1, 1992, p. 71-2. *
Author unknown, Review of The Tax Inspector, Insights, October 1991, p. 39. *
Author unknown, Review of The Tax Inspector, Kirkus Reviews, 1st November 1991, n. pag. *
Author unknown, Review of The Tax Inspector, Locus, March 1992, p. 17 *
Author unknown, Review of The Tax Inspector, Media Watch, 9, 1991, p. 12. *
Author unknown, Review of The Tax Inspector, New York, Volume 25, Number 2, 13th January 1992, p. 62. *
Author unknown, Review of The Tax Inspector, The New Yorker, Volume 68, Number 1, 24th February 1992, p. 101.
Author unknown, Review of The Tax Inspector, Publishers Weekly, Volume 238, Number 45, 11th October 1991, p. 50.
Author unknown, Review of Tax Inspector, Sydney Review, 34, 1991, p. 13. *
Author unknown, Review of Tax Inspector, Townsville Bulletin, 26th July 1991, p. 112. *
Blyth, Judy, Review of The Tax Inspector, Chronicle, 1st December 1991, p. 19. *
Bell, Pearl K., Review of The Tax Inspector, Partisan Review, Volume 59, Number 2, Spring 1992, p. 283-5.
Brady, Veronica, "Birth, Death and Taxes", Overland, 125, 1991, p. 80-3.
Charlton, Peter, "Colonial-life laureate turns tough eye on modern age", The Courier Mail, 8th August 1991, p. 12.
Clancy, Laurie, "Brilliant episodes", Australian Society, Volume 10, Number 8, 1991, p. 38-9.
Coe, Jonathan, "Australian Circles", London Review of Books, Volume 13, Number 17, 1991, p. 12.
Cook, Bruce, "Misfits and eccentrics", Chicago Tribune, 5th January 1992, p. 1, 6.*
Craig, Jen, "The Real Thing", Southerly, 52, 1992, p. 152-6.
Daniel, Helen, "The Tax Inspector and the gremlins", The Age Saturday Extra, 27th July 1991, p. 9.
Dixon, Robert, "The Logic of the Excluded Middle", LiNQ, 18, no. 2, 1991, p. 133-41.
Edwards, Brian, "Returning to Hell", Mattoid, Volume 41, number 3, 1991, p. 149-54. *
Floyd, Chris, Review of The Tax Inspector, Span, 33, May 1992, p. 179-81.
Giese, Diana, "Diving deep into the dreams of damaged lives", The Weekend Australian, 27-28 July, 1991, p. 4.
Glendinning, Victoria, "Angels on the urban junkheap", The Times, 5th September 1991, p. 14.
Glover, Richard, "The Dark Side of Sydney", World Press Review, Volume 38, Number 11, November 1991, p. 57.
Gough, Sue, "Savage mark by Carey", The Courier Mail, 27th July 1991, p. 7.
Graeber, L., "New and Noteworthy", New York Times Book Review, 28th February 1993, p. 32.
Gray, Paul, "Australia's Family Ties", Time (Australia), Volume 139, Number 3, 20th January 1992, p. 51-2.
Griffith, Nick, "Carey's heart on the sleeve", The Weekend News, 19th July 1991, p. 10. *
Hawker, Phillipa, "Carey's contemporary angels have the potential for destruction", Australian Book Review, 133, 1991, p. 15-7.
Henderson, David W., Review of The Tax Inspector, Library Journal, Volume 117, Number 1, January 1992, p. 170.
Hosmer, Robert E. Jr., "A richly comic tale of Australia", Boston Sunday Globe, 12th January 1992, p. 48. *
Hugo, Giles, "This Madness Needs the Sanity Put Back Into It", The Saturday Mercury (Weekend Review), 27 July 1991, p. 20.
Johnson, Rob, "Carey shows his brilliance - in parts", The Advertiser, 3rd August 1991, p. 108.
Jones, Paulette, "Inspecting 'Civilized' Worlds", Social Alternatives, Volume 10, Number. 4, 1991, p. 58-9.
Kellaway, Kate, "Eternal Wedding Day", Literary Review, September 1991, p. 6.
Kemp, Peter, "Toxic Shocks", Sunday Times, 1st September 1991, p. Books 6.
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, "A Family That Only Appears Zany; It's Really Much Worse", New York Times, 16th January 1992, p. C21.
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, Review of The Tax Inspector, International Herald Tribune, 1-2 February 1992, p. 14.
Liddelow, Eden, "New Model Carey", Scripsi, Volume 7, Number 2, 1991, p. 93-100.
Linklater, Andro, "Landscape with peasants", Spectator, 7th September 1991, p. 34.
Marx, Bill, Review of The Tax Inspector, The Nation (US), Volume 254, Number 10, 16th March 1992, p. 346.
Pierce, Peter, "A stumble, no more", The Bulletin, 13th August 1991, p. 112.
Prose, Francine, "Would You Buy a Used Car From This Family?", The New York Times Book Review, 12th January 1992, p. 1, 26.
Radin, Victoria, "Toxic Waste", New Statesman & Society, Volume 4, Number 168, 13th September 1991, p. 39.
Riemer, A.P., "Brutish & Nasty", The Sydney Morning Herald, 3rd August 1991, p. 43.
Ross, Roberts, "Would you buy a used car from these people?", Antipodes, Volume 6, Number 1, 1992, p. 87.
Thomas, Mark, "An Odd Lot", The Canberra Times, 27th July 1991, p. C9.
Towers, Robert, "House of Cards", The New York Review of Books, Volume 39, Number 12, 25th June 1992, p. 35-36.
White, Edmund, "Recognizing Jack", Times Literary Supplement, Number 4613, 30th August 1991, p. 21.
Wilson, A.N., "Illusions of grandeur", The Standard, 29th August 1991, p. 29. *
Woods, Frances, Review of The Tax Inspector, Booklist, Volume 88, Number 10, 15th January 1992, p. 906.
Wooldridge, Adrian, "Terror for the Tax Inspector", Daily Mail, 22nd August 1991, p. 48.*
Wyndham, Susan, "Carey's Epic Reversal a Taxing Effort", The Weekend Australian, 28-9 April 1990, p. wkd. 7.
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith:
Author unknown, Review of The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, Publisher's Weekly, Volume 241, Number 51, 19th December 1994, p. 46.
Author unknown, "'Unusual Life' is Unusually Disappointing: Peter Carey's New Book Doesn't Meet Standards of His Previous Work", The Kansas City Star, 9th April 1995(?), p. J-10. *
Becker, Joel, "Forecasts", Australian Bookseller & Publisher, 74:1049, July 1994, p. 52.
Bernard, April, "Un-Efican Activities",The New York Review of Books, Volume 42, Number 11, 22nd June 1995, p. 44-48.
Coad, David, Review of The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, World Literature Today, Volume 70, Number 3, Summer 1996, p. 757.
Coe, Jonathan, "Principia Efica", London Review of Books, Volume 16, Number 18, 22nd September 1994, p. 5.
Daniel, Helen, "A Dazzling Sleight of Hand", The Age Saturday Extra, 20th August 1994, p. 7.
Doyle, Jeff, "A Resolution Denied", Voices, Volume 5, Number 4, Summer 1995 (1995-1996), p. 123-6.
Eder, Richard, "Sunday Books Brave New Disneyworld", Newsday, 5th February 1995, p. 33-5.
England, Katherine, "Inventive Joy", The Advertiser Magazine, 24th September 1994, p. 12.
Fishman, Ben, "Postmodern Nightmare; National And Personal Sensibilities In An Alternative New World", The College Hill Independent, the Brown-RISD weekly (published by students of Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design), 1st May 1997.
Frankel, Susannah, "Preview", Time Out, 7-14th September 1994, p. 47. *
Giese, Diana, "Remaking the Self that Life has Dealt", The Canberra Times (The Reader), 23 August 1994, p. 3.
Glendinning, Victoria, "No Fairy-Tale Endings", Daily Telegraph (London), 3rd September 1994, p. 7. *
Glover, Michael, "Picaresque novel, restless for ideas, wanders astray", Insight on the News, Volume 11, Number 12, 20th March 1995, p. 28.
Glover, Michael, Review of The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, Insight on the News, 20th March 1995, Volume 11, Number 12, p. 28.
Hasluck, Nicholas, "Joining the Sirkus", Quadrant, Volume 39, Numbers 1-2, January-February 1995, p. 102-4.
Heyward, Michael, Review of The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, The New Republic, Volume 212, Number 15, 10th April, 1995, p. 38.
Ikin, Van, and Dolin, Kieran, "Australia (including Papua New Guinea)" (1994 Bibliography), The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Volume 30, Number 3, 15th December 1995, p. 3.
Indyk, Ivor, "When National Pride Transcends All Borders", The Sunday Age (Agenda), 21st August 1994, p. 8.
Jaireth, Subhash, "A Mis-en-Scene in the Feu-Follet Theatre in Chemin Rouge", Overland, 139, Winter 1995, p. 72-4.
Jolly, Joanne, Review, New Librarian, Volume 1, Number 6, August 1994, p. 40.
Kemp, Peter, "Flamboyant fabrication", The Sunday Times (London), 4th September 1994, p. 13.
Korn, Eric, "Entertaining Enterprises", Times Literary Supplement, Number 4769, 2nd September 1994, p. 10.
MacLean, Marie, "Carey Goes Cybersurfing", Australian Book Review, 164, September 1994, p. 8-10.
Myers, David, "Ambitious Sci-Fi Satire", The Courier Mail, 20th August 1994, p. wkd. 6.
Pascoe, Bruce, "Tristan's Quest", Eureka Street, Volume 4, Number 10, December 1994, p. 34-5.
Pierce, Peter, "A Clever Fable Not of This World", The Bulletin, 30th August 1994, p. 88-9.
Riemer, A.P., "The Antipodes of Tiny Tristan", The Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), 20th August 1994, p. 9A.
Robb, Peter, "The Mouse That Scored", The Independent Monthly, Volume 6, Number 3, September 1994, p. 66-8.
Rungren, Lawrence, Review of The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, Library Journal, Volume 120, Number 1, January 1995, p. 135.
Shields, Carol, "Voorstand, Go Home!", The New York Times Book Review, 12th February 1995, p. 7.
Shone, Tom, "Wild Ride", The New Yorker, Volume 71, Number 2, 6th March 1995, p. 124.
Turcotte, Gerry, "A Non-Stop, Three-Ringed Sirkus", The Weekend Australian, 20-1 August 1994, p. rev. 7.
Welch, Sarah St. Vincent, "Sirkus Boy", Editions, 22, March 1995, p. 24.
Whiteside, Shaun, Review of The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, New Statesman & Society, Volume 7 Number 329, 18th November 1994, p. 53.
Wynveen, Tim, Review of The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, Maclean's, Volume 108, Number 8, 20th February 1995, p. 65.
The Big Bazoohley:
Author unknown, Review of The Big Bazoohley, Publishers Weekly, Volume 242, Number 38, 18th September 1995, p. 134.
Slepian, Jan, "Eyes on the Prize", The New York Times Book Review, 12th November 1995, p. 30.
Collected Stories:
Bliss, Carolyn, Review of Collected Stories, World Literature Today, Volume 70, Number 3, Summer 1996, p. 757.
Sage, Lorna, "Artist from a distant planet", Times Literary Supplement, Number 4820, 18th August 1995, p. 19.
Jack Maggs:
England, Katherine, "Expect It from Carey", The Advertiser Weekend Magazine, 9th August 1997, p. 19.
Fitzgerald, Michael, "Changed Expectations", Time, 11th August 1997, p. 82.
Jose, Nicholas, "Carey's Labyrinth", Australian Book Review, August 1997, p. 14-5.
Author unknown, "Peter Carey Shy No More", The West Australian, 17th July 1991, p. 45.
Baker, Candida, "Open Book", The Good Weekend, 13th January 1990, p. 42-6.
Brass, K., "Author who hadn't read a book before he turned 18", Australian Women's Weekly, 24th December 1980, p. 20.
Craven, Peter, "Doubting Peter", Business Review Weekly: Spring Supplement FYI, 1991, p. 47.
Dougherty, Steve, "Manhattan Transfer", Who Weekly, 6th July 1992, p. 39-40.
Nicklin, Lenore, "The writer is an ad-man ...", The Sydney Morning Herald, 13th February 1975, p. 7.
Simpson, Lindsay, "Private Lives : Peter Carey and Alison Summers", Good Weekend (The Age), 27th August 1988, p. 8-9.
Summers, Alison, "The Thin Man in History", The Bulletin, 15th November 1988, p. 156-7.
Wyndham, Susan, "Peter Carey: An Unusual Life", The Australian Magazine, 20-21 August 1994, p. 42-6, 48.
Wyndham, Susan, "The Family Man", The Australian Magazine, 14-5 October 1995, p. 18.
Author unknown (AAP), "A Second Miles Franklin for Carey", The Mercury, 26th July 1989, p. 3.
Author unknown, "Carey's Prize Prose", The Sydney Morning Herald, 30th November 1985, p. 47.
Author unknown, "Carey Sues Herald", The Canberra Times, 23rd December 1989, p. 4.
Author unknown, "Carey to Keynote Spring Conference", Newsletter of the American Association of Australian Literary Studies, Volume 5, Number 2, November 1989, p. 1.
Author unknown, "Light Floods AAALS' 5th Conference", Newsletter of the American Association of Australian Literary Studies, Volume 6 number 1, May 1990, p.1, 6.
Author unknown, "Top Award for Carey", The West Australian, 26th July 1989, p. 9.
Boucher, Bernard, "Carey Novel Bags Festival Fiction Prize", The Advertiser, 5th March 1990, p. 2.
Carbines, Louise, "Carey Wins 'The Age' Book of the Year With the Help of Tristan Smith", The Age, 3rd December 1994, p. 3.
Cooke, Karen, "Illywhacker wins Age Book of the Year Award", The Age, 30th November 1985, p. 4.
Douglas, Mark, "Peter Carey Enjoys Anonymity in SA", The Advertiser, 18th July 1991, p. 5.
Haupt, Robert, "The Real Reason Our Authors Ought to Fear an Open Market", The Sydney Morning Herald, 7th December 1989, p. 15. (Carey sued The Sydney Morning Herald over this article).
Kennedy, Fiona, "Carey Brings Fantasy World to Unusual Life", The Weekend Australian, 20-21 August 1994, p. 4.
Lloyd, Graham, "Opposites Clash in Carey's Life, Work", The Australian, 16th July, 1991, p. 3.
Lucas, Robin, "Carey in the Classroom", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2nd April 1994, p. 7A.
McCrum, Robert, "An Antipodean Renaissance", Sunday Times, 27th March 1988, p. G7.
Menkes, Vivienne, "Booker goes to 'Oscar and Lucinda,' published in U.S. by Harper", Publisher's Weekly, 11th November, 1988, Volume 234, Number 20, p. 14.
Morrison, James, "Peter Carey's Oscar Nets a Miles", The Australian, 26th July, 1989, p. 3.
Richardson, Nick, "Niles Wants Books Banned", The Australian, 26th June 1991, p. 3.
Rothwell, Nicholas, "Champagne Carey's Booker 'Terrifying Thrill'", The Australian, 27th October 1988, p. 1, 6.
Rowbotham, David, "Salute to our champion writers", The Courier-Mail, 16th October 1982, p. 28.
Stephens, Tony, "A Prize That is Something to Write Home About", The Sydney Morning Herald, 26th July 1989, p. 3.
Wheatley, Jane, "Something rotten down under", The Times, 7th September, 1991, p. 12.
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Last updated on Tuesday, 11 November 1997.
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/