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 First edition | |
| Author | Peter Carey |
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| Cover artist | Kate Barry |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime, historical novel |
| Publisher | UQP (Australia) |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (Hardback and Paperback) |
| Pages | 401pp |
| ISBN | 0-7022-3236-X |
| OCLC | 52247236 |
| Preceded by | Jack Maggs |
| Followed by | My Life as a Fake |
True History of the Kelly Gang is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey, based loosely on the history of the Kelly Gang. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000.[1] It won the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the same year. Despite its title, the book is fiction and a variation on the Ned Kelly story.
- ^ An extract was previously published as Carey, Peter (Summer 2000). "True history of the Kelly Gang, first part". Granta. 70: 69–100.