Author(s): PETER CAREY

General Fiction

First published in 1997, this novel won the 1997 Age Fiction Book of the Year, the 1998 Commonwealth Writers Prize, and the 1998 Miles Franklin Award. Transported convict Jack Maggs risks death by hanging when he returns to London from Australia to locate a young aristocrat. Based on characters from Charles Dickens' 'Great Expectations'. The author's other publications include 'Oscar and Lucinda' which won the Booker Prize in 1988.