Oscar & Lucinda

Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning masterpiece follows two gloriously mismatched souls in colonial Australia—Oscar, a nervous Anglican minister with a gambling obsession, and Lucinda, a fiercely independent heiress who owns a glass factory. Their unlikely friendship culminates in an audacious wager involving a glass church transported across the Australian wilderness. It's eccentric, luminous, and utterly unforgettable. Perfect for readers who love ambitious historical fiction with oddball characters and stunning prose.