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Thomas Keneally
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 vast range of characters who…
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In the third volume of Thomas Keneally’s unique history of Australia - where he shines a light on the lives and deeds of our countrymen and women, both known and…
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Thomas Keneally (Author)
Bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story, in the second volume of a unique history of Australia.
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A masterly history of Australia and its people by an author of outstanding literary skill whose own humanity permeates every page.
Originally published in Australia in 2012 by Vintage Australia –Title page verso.
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The Booker Prize-winning author’s [I]important new book…As yet more glib headlines announce that East Africa is currently suffering a biblical failure of crops, rather than a failure of accountable government…
When Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman, the backlash from both Jimmie’s tribe and white society initiates a series of dramatic events… Presenting a fictionalised account of the 19th century…
Stan Grant
A thoughtful, nuanced look at Thomas Keneally’s The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by award-winning journalist Stan Grant, which considers race, representation and Australian history.
When Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman, the backlash from both Jimmie’s tribe and white society initiates a series of dramatic events. As Jimmie tries to survive between two cultures…
Following a lifetime observing Australia and its people, Tom Keneally turns inwards to reflect on what has been important to him.
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Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller
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'Keneally's caricature of a self-loathing JimA-mie Blacksmith is a lost opportunity to explore the complex ways that Aboriginal people a ] were pushing against a white world that would not…
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Keneally’s caricature of a self-loathing JimA mie Blacksmith is a lost opportunity to explore the complex ways that Aboriginal people aEURO| were pushing against a white world that would not…
Paul Sharrad
‘Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine’ explains the disparate opinions, charting his writing’s production and reception as shaping a literary career. It tracks tensions between literary and commercial values…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s List, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
And the caddish, good-looking Dan Sickles personifies the extremes of the era: as a womaniser, he introduced his favourite madam to Queen Victoria while his wife stayed at home, and…
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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.
Australian literature’s strangest novel, written by its most familiar novelist
The classic by Booker Prize-winner Thomas Keneally When Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman, the backlash from both Jimmie’s tribe and ..
By the author of Schindler’s Ark and master storyteller, Thomas Keneally, a vibrant novel about Charles Dickens’ son and his adventures in the Australian Outback.
Thomas Keneally’s critically acclaimed fictional recreation of the end of the First World War.
Featuring passion, politics, and war, American Scoundrel tells the story of Civil War General Dan Sickles, a notorious 19th century rogue who got away with murdering his wife’s lover.
This national bestseller by the highly-acclaimed author of Schindler’s List tells the deeply moving and spellbinding story of an alienated Australian journalist’s soul-searching journey across a war-torn Africa.
By the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler’s Ark, a bold, millennia-spanning novel about community, mortality, and what it means to be human.
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.
QUIEN SALVA LA VIDA DE OTRA PERSONA SALVA AL MUNDO ENTERO.
El era Oskar Schindler. Un empresario aleman, miembro del partido nazi, que, con osadia e ingenio, se convirtio en…
By the author of SCHINDLER’S ARK, an enthralling, thought-provoking story of wartime exploits, and the price paid for men’s misguided heroism by their widows
In the 19th century the Irish population was halved. This book traces the three causes of this depletion; first the marine, second the Irish Diaspora and the emigrations to places…
A masterful account of Napoleon’s final years in exile, by Booker Prize-winning author Thomas Keneally
A dramatic novel about a tragedy in Australia in 1984 which had its roots in Eastern Europe and World War II.
Keneally’s magnificent story of a young officer in a penal colony during the founding days of Australia transports readers through layer after layer of life in Sydney Cove, Australia. Advertising…
Originally published in Australia in 2018 by Penguin Random House Australia –Title page verso.
Based on real events in the life of Tim Shea, Keneally’s grandfather, who flees with his family from the unyielding class system and poverty of British-controlled Ireland to set up…
A timely, courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy.
Now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth, this concise biography offers an incisive study of a turning point in America’s history and a revealing portrait of a…
During World War II, David Pelham, a young British surgeon, parachutes into Yugoslavia and sets up a hospital to aid Tito’s army. There he meets–and loves–the fiery Moja Javich, a…
From the award-winning author of To Asmara comes a riveting and richly-textured tale of magic, terrorism, the loss of dreams, and the extraordinary powers of the human spirit. After terrorists…
Originally published in Australia in 2020 by Vintage, an imprint of Penguin Random House –Copyright page.
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.
A compelling, powerful novel of adventure and murder among Antarctic explorers.
The Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler’s List combines the authority of a brilliant historian and the narrative grace of a great novelist to present a gripping account of the Irish…
A remarkable reappraisal of Joan of Arc and her legendary deeds.
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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.
