Booker Prize Winner: ‘Extraordinary . . . So mesmerising and moving.’ Mail on Sunday. ‘Vastly entertaining.’ New York Times. To the authorities in pursuit of him, Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey’s Booker Prize-winning novel of adventure and heroism brings the famous bushranger wildly and passionately to life.