True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (Penguin Modern Australian Classics) (out 8 September 2026)

True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (Penguin Modern Australian Classics) (out 8 September 2026)The unrivalled telling of the legend as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people hes a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at fifteen, has become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking

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