Peter Carey is the multi-award-winning author of eight novels, plus two highly acclaimed collections of short stories and a memoir. His books have won or been shortlisted for every major literary award in Australia. He has won the Booker Prize twice – in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang and in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda. In 1998 he won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Jack Maggs, and again in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang. In 2007 he won the NSW Premier's Award and the Victorian Premier's Award for Theft: A Love Story. Born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Peter Carey now lives in New York. Amos Phillips is an actor, vocalist and voiceover artist who has been working in the film and advertising industry for over 15 years. Amos has had a number of television appearances, such as Neighbours, Underbelly and Offspring. He has performed in multiple theatre shows, television commercials and has fronted several rock bands including his current band SENTIA. Since her acclaimed debut in the Sydney Theatre Company's 2002 production of The Glass Menagerie, Eloise has worked with the STC, the MTC, Racing Pulse and numerous independent theatre companies Australia wide. An avid reader, her Bolinda audiobook titles range from Ted Prior’s children's classics to Peter Carey’s literary fiction. Screen credits include Oddball, Hunt Angels, and the ABC’s The Cut, My Place and The Doctor Blake Mysteries.
'Carey is a wily and supremely confident storyteller on a grand scale' -- The Times 'A new Peter Carey novel is cause for joy' -- The Guardian 'Carey can write. He is funny, humane, and profound.' -- Literary Review