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Thomas Keneally
A compelling, powerful novel of adventure and murder among Antarctic explorers.
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As felons, perjurers and whores rehearse, their playmaker becomes strangely seduced. For the play’s power is mirrored in the rich, varied life of this primitive land, and, not least, in…
By the Booker-winning author of Schindler’s Ark, a vibrant novel about Charles Dickens’ son and his little-known adventures in the Australian Outback.
Australian literature’s strangest novel, written by its most familiar novelist
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A dramatic and fascinating novel based on a notorious breakout by Japanese prisoners from an Australian POW camp in 1944, encapsulating the impact of war on ordinary lives.
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A masterful account of Napoleon’s final years in exile, by Booker Prize-winning author Thomas Keneally
A timely, courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy.
A fascinating retelling of Oskar Schindler’s extraordinary story and how it came to the world’s attention through Thomas Keneally’s Booker Prize-winning novel and the subsequent multiple Oscar-winning film, Schindler’s List
Tells the story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaols were bursting.
Reissued to coincide with the release of Steven Spielberg’s film of the same name from Universal Pictures, this Booker Prize-winning novel tells the true story of one remarkable man who…
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Keneally’s widely acclaimed classic novel of the American Civil War.
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A remarkable novel about the Eritrean war, likened to For Whom The Bell Tolls and as relevant today as on its first publication.
When Palestinian guerillas hijack a flight from New York to Frankfurt, they find an Aboriginal dance troupe among the passengers. Similarly dispossessed of their land, whose side will the Aborigines…
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‘A subtle examination of innocence and guilt’ (Observer).
Reissued to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Keneally’s first novel.
By the author of SCHINDLER’S ARK, a profoundly affecting tale of love, courage and sacrifice and a searing evocation of the First World War from a fresh, female perspective.
During World War II, Nazi Party member Oskar Schindler took over a formerly Jewish-owned Polish factory. In order to save the lives of his workers he persuaded the Nazis to…
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A moving story of heroism, filled with vivid characterizations, suspense, and a keen sense of mystery–Kenneally’s most compelling work since his Booker Prize-winning Schindler’s List. A woman who loses her…
Sydney, 1942: the year of the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget submarines. Through the eyes of a naive…
Jacko Emptor, Northern Territory born, brings Australian wilderness to the television screens of America. Is American ready for him? Is he ready for America? Jacko, investigative reporter, exploits American innocence…
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On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife’s lover in Lafayette Square, just across from the White House. This is the story of that murder…
Prim, an aid-worker in the Sudan, is contacted by her sister back in Australia. She has found some revealing documents concerning their ancestors. As Prim’s travels progress, she realises that…
Imagine a country that was once a friend of the West becoming an enemy, its people starving and savagely repressed by a tyrant. As a celebrated writer and war hero…
A South Pacific penal colony in the late eighteenth century. An honest man named Phelim Halloran and Ann Rush, his secret bride. Poet, soldier, lover and grand innocent, Halloran must…
Timberlake Wertenbaker
An Australian penal colony in 1789. A young lieutenant directs rehearsals of the Restoration comedy, The Recruiting Officer . With a cast of convicts, opposition from sadistic officers and a…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s List (Lit-to-Film), excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Unprecedented in the breadth of what it offers from both the ancient and the recent literature of my country. -Thomas Keneally, from the foreword
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur…
When sisters Prim and Dimp come into possession of revealing documents concerning their ancestors, they begin to gain radically new perspectives on their roots. This novel traces the origins of…
Thomas Keneally’s captivating memoir
Patrick White
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANE Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naive young woman. Voss sets out to…
Thomas Kenneally
In the nineteenth century, the Irish population was halved. This astonishing work of non-fiction, based on a quest not unlike Thomas Keneally’s work on Oscar Schindler, investigates the three causes…
