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In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a play. As felons...
Thomas Keneally presents this lively history of the 'First Fleet' which took convicts from Britain to Australia in 1787. He also tells the story of th...
A disturbing love story about two families and the madness that threatens to consume them . . . Terry Delaney, a professional rugby player, leads a co...
A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New
In The Great Shame, Thomas Keneally--the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's List--combines the authority of a brilliant historian...
A Memoir
The tale of the encounter that propelled the author to write about Oskar Schindler....
The Improbable Birth of Australia
Chronicles the 1788-1792 colonization of the British penal colony in Australia by convicts and the officers guarding them....
In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Holoca...
Allen & Unwin shorts
Austin North sees himself as a fine English teacher in his local high school. His students respect him, and he finds personal fulfillment in teaching ...
In November 1918, in a railway carriage in a forest near Paris, six men meet to negotiate an end to the terrible slaughter of the First World War. Thr...
When Grace married the handsome and worldly Captain Leo Waterhouse in Australia during the middle of the Second World War, she never doubted that she ...
A Life
The ideal concise biography of an American icon- now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth The self -mad e man from a log cabin, th...
A revised version of the author's novel The Fear, this is a portrait of urban Australia during World War II. It is the story of Daniel Jordan, a boy g...
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Alec Ramsey is the survivor of a disastrous Antarctic expedition which abandoned his revered friend and leader of the party, Stephen Leeming. For fort...
A Novel
Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of The Daughters of Mars and Schindler’s List, brings his “insightful and nimble prose” (The New York Ti...
An Edwardian murder mystery set on the unforgiving Antarctic tundra . . . Captain Sir Eugene Stewart chose the gentlemen to join his great 1910 expedi...
Artem Samsurov, an ardent follower of Lenin and a hero of the rebellion, flees his Siberian labor camp for the sanctuary of Brisbane, Australia in 191...
The true story behind the Booker Prize winning novel 'Schindler's Ark'
A fascinating retelling of Oskar Schindler's extraordinary story and how it came to the world's attention through Thomas Keneally's Booker Prize-winni...
Why would wealthy Kate Gaffney-Kozinsky flee her husband, lover, family, and society? What can she find by losing herself in the bleak Australian outb...
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. This work tells the story of Oskar Schi...
My passions, memories and demons
Following a lifetime observing Australia and its people, Tom Keneally turns inwards to reflect on what has been important to him. 'When I was born in ...
Australian historical novel. When sisters Dimp and Prim Bettany discover the memoirs of their ancestor John Bettany they are drawn into the world of t...
Paperback reissue of a book first published in 1998. Non-fiction account of the Irish diaspora, when in the 19th century the Irish population was halv...
In what is perhaps “the best novel of his career” (The Spectator), the acclaimed author of Schindler’s List tells the unforgettable story of two...
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 ...
A Journey to the Southwest
Chronicles the people and landscape of the American Southwest, and profiles the characters, past and present, who have played a key role in its histor...
Oparta na faktach historia Niemca, który uratował przed zagładą 1200 istnień ludzkich. Pochodzący z Sudetów Niemiec, należący do NSDAP sprytn...
"From the bestselling author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars, a new historical novel set on the remote island of Saint Helena about the ...
In this playful and poignant memoir, Thomas Keneally returns to his adolescence in the suburbs of Sydney in 1952. At sixteen, the red-haired teenager ...
A brilliant recreation of the first four years of white settlement in Australia by Booker Prize-winning author Tom Keneally. In 1787, Britain banished...
roman
"In the tradition of Atonement and Birdsong, the Durance sisters leave Australia to nurse on the front during WWI and discover a world beyond their im...
Origins to Eureka
The first volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, from bestselling author Thomas Keneally who brings to life the...
Imagine a Middle-Eastern country that was once a friend of the West becoming an enemy, its people starving and savagely repressed by a tyrant known as...
Ireland & the Irish
Attractively photographed, large-format book which chronicles the well-known author's travels around the country of his ancestors. He has also written...
The authos of the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling Schindler's List presents a novel about social justice and the inability of humans to hide from th...
'A grand master of historical fiction.' Mail on Sunday
'God save all here.' Summer, 1847. People are getting used to the corpses lying by the road and along the ditches. For John Mitchel - lawyer, journali...
A young Catholic priest in a teaching seminary finds endless difficulties with the strict authoritarianism of the church establishment....