'Book 3' on cover; ''Pets' (Illywhacker) : a novel by Peter Carey'' on title page, 565-896 leaves in 1 bound volume, 27 Feb 1984.

Drafts for Book 1 of 'Pets' (Illywhacker), most with handwritten amendments. Original folders may have notes.

'Book 3' on cover; '"Pets" (Illywhacker) : a novel by Peter Carey' on title page, 565-756 leaves in 1 bound volume, undated, incomplete.

Amended pages 363-403 for Book 2 (Originally in envelope inserted in bound copy of Book 2. See: UQFL164-Series A-Subseries 2-Item 2. Envelope discarded)

Drafts for Book 2 of 'Pets' (Illywhacker), most with handwritten amendments. Original folders may have notes.

Drafts for Book 3 of 'Pets' (Illywhacker), most with handwritten amendments. Original folders may have notes.

Initially entitled 'Holding up the Sky', 'Spanish pink' is a screenplay written by Peter Carey and Ray Lawrence. There are notes, photocopies of the story outline on index cards, a script assessment, notes for camera sequences, and draft typescripts.

Records relating to the committees for The Performance Space, the syndicate to purchase Nimrod Theatre Buildings.

Illywhacker was published in 1985 in Australia by University of Queensland Press. It has won a number of awards and was short-listed for the Booker Prize. This series includes typescript drafts for 'Pets' (Illywhacker) and Illywhacker, showing substantial revisions at every stage and the development of the novel from earliest ideas to finished form. Correspondence, notes, research material and index cards are included. Illywhacker has won the Age Book of the Year Award 1985, Fellowship of Australian Writers Victor - Barbara Ramsden Award 1985, National Book Council Award for Australian Literature - Banjo Award 1985, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction 1986 and Ditmar Awards 1986.

'Orphans. 3rd draft, 20/11/85 - pages 1-32', photocopied typescript.