Oscar and Lucinda

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.

Steven Crossley is an English theatre, television and radio drama actor. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and has established an acting career on both sides of the Atlantic in New York and London. He has narrated over 200 audiobooks and has won multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, for The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie and Sharpe's Fury by Bernard Cornwell, among others.