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Tom Keneally
'A masterpiece.' A.N. WILSON In the tradition of Atonement and Birdsong, The Daughters of Mars follows the Durance sisters as they leave Australia to nurse on the front during WWI…
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'A subtle examination of heroism ... This clever, compelling novel asks some uncomfortable questions' PENELOPE LIVELY, THE GUARDIAN
To be a hero's wife in times supposedly suited to the heroic…
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'If the legendary Schindler's List was not enough to showcase Thomas Keneally's literary mastery, then Shame and the Captives surely will. ' NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Will keeping the Japanese…
You don't need me to tell you Keneally is a brilliant storyteller, but with Fanatic Heart he proves it once again. ARTS HUB
'The novel's resonance for our time is…
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One of the central moral issues of our time is the question of asylum seekers, arguably the most controversial subject in Australia today.
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A fast-paced, witty and gripping historical crime series from Tom Keneally and his eldest daughter Meg. In the Port Macquarie penal settlement for second offenders, at the edge of the…
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For five decades Tom Keneally has been one of Australia’s finest and most loved writers. Celebrated across the world as a master storyteller, and known especially for the Booker Prize-winning…
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You don't need me to tell you Keneally is a brilliant storyteller, but with Fanatic Heart he proves it once again. ARTS HUB 'The novel's resonance for our time is…
How did Corporal Hitler’s Luger from the First World War end up being the weapon that killed an IRA turncoat in Kempsey, New South Wales, in 1933?
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From the moment he allows his young cousin and bride to spend the night in his room, Father Maitland causes raised eyebrows and dark mutterings amongst the brothers at St…
Learned Man is the child of humankind as we know it; of those who are thought to have travelled from the Rift Valley in Africa and to ancient Australia. Shelby…
The tenth child of Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn, had consistently proved unable ‘to apply himself ’ to school or life. So aged sixteen, he is…
Whilst living in exile on St Helena, Napoleon exerted an extraordinary influence on young Betsy Balcombe. How did she get from Napoleon’s side to the Australian bush? When Tom Keneally…
In perhaps his boldest and most personal novel, Tom Keneally explores the journeys of modern Australians alongside the imagined story of ancient Learned Man whose remains were discovered in Western…
Artem Samsurov reaches sanctuary in Australia after escaping his Siberian labour camp and making a perilous journey via Japan. But Brisbane in 1911 turns out not to be the workers’…
In 1915 sisters Naomi and Sally Durance answer a call for nurses to join the war effort. They are escaping the family dairy farm in the Macleay Valley, and they…
In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally’s widely acclaimed history of the Australian people, the vast range of characters who have formed our national story are brought vividly to life…
Will keeping the Japanese, Korean and Italian POWs of the Second World War alive in Australia keep Australian POWs alive and well wherever they are? In the spirit of The…
In 1943, when Grace and Leo married in Australia, they were part of a generation ready to sacrifice themselves to win the war, while being confident they would survive. Sixty…
A memoir of Tom’s journey around the world to discover the complete story of Oskar Schindler and that list.
A retelling of the life and exploits of Irish patriot John Mitchel, with a particular focus on his time in exile on Van Diemen’s Land.
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.
This is the story of three great famines - an Gorta Mor, the great hunger of Ireland which began in 1846 and whose end-date is a matter of debate; the…
Tom Keneally’s first novel, published after his years in a seminary, released here with a preface reflecting on fifty years of publication.
A courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy.
A timely, courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy.Tom Keneally, ex-seminarian, pulls no punches…
In 1787, Britain banished its unwanted citizens - uneducated petty thieves, streetwalkers, orphan chimney sweeps and dashing highwaymen - to the fringes of the known world. From this improbable beginning…
Corporal Hitler's Pistol speaks to the never-ending war that began with 'the war to end all wars'.
Thomas Keneally
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…
Meg Keneally and Tom Keneally
For Robert Church, superintendent of the Parramatta Female Factory, the most enjoyable part of his job is access to young convict women. Inmate Grace O'Leary has made it her mission…
When a boatman is murdered on a remote island off Van Dieman’s Land, the authorities want to blame a famous, and very inconvenient, political prisoner. But the victim’s history of…
Tom Keneally,Meg Keneally
Being the skipper of the cutter that carries all supplies and communications between Tasmania and Maria Island is a powerful position, and a deadly one.
When a boatman is murdered…
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…
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 fast-paced, witty and gripping historical crime series from Tom Keneally and his eldest daughter Meg.
In the Port Macquarie penal settlement for second offenders, at the edge of the…
Monsarrat and Mrs Mulrooney are sent to Sydney to investigate corruption that may go right to the top - to the office of the governor - and threaten the colony’s…
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…
Not all murder victims are mourned, but the perpetrator must always be punished …
For Robert Church, superintendent of the Parramatta Female Factory, the most enjoyable part of his job…
Meg and Tom Keneally
A fast-paced, witty and gripping historical crime opener to The Monsarrat Series from Tom Keneally and his eldest daughter Meg
Murder often comes with an easy scapegoat…
When an affluent Kempsey matron spots a young Aboriginal boy who bears an uncanny resemblance to her husband, not only does she scream for divorce, attempt to take control of…
Artem Samsurov, a charismatic protege of Lenin and an ardent socialist, reaches sanctuary in Australia after escaping his Siberian labour camp and making a long, perilous journey via Japan. But…
This work is the engrossing chronicle of Keneally’s pursuit of Oskar Schindler–one of history’s most fascinating and paradoxical heroes. The author reveals how writing the book affected him as a…
