BlissBliss was Peter Carey's astonishing first novel a fast moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in Hell. For the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is and takes up a notebook to explore and notate the true nature of the Underworld. As in his stories and some of his later novels, it is Peter Carey's achievement in Bliss to create a brilliant but totally

When Commander Joe Sandilands travelling companion

Little can he imagine the hurdles that lie before him

but a secretive order

Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream

With ironic delight he recalls his time in the British Secret Service in Africa

a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset's most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life

It’s a tête-bêche novel

dazzling shock to the system

Pomp and Circumstance

has been kept secret since the beginning of time

when all hope is gone

retired art thief Tom Kirk is asked by an old friend to investigate a case involving the theft of a long lost Caravaggio painting