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Meg Keneally
From horse thief to the merchant queen of Sydney Cove - how did one woman rise so far?
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Tom Keneally
'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…
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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…
Corporal Hitler's Pistol speaks to the never-ending war that began with 'the war to end all wars'.
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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…
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…
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 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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Leah Kaminsky,Meg Keneally
A response to the devastating 2019-20 bushfires, Animals Make Us Human both celebrates Australia’s unique wildlife and highlights its vulnerability.
Meg Keneally and Tom Keneally,Tom Keneally
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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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…
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…
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…
Rosie Scott,Tom Keneally
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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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…
She becomes the leader in a grand plot of escape, but is survival any more certain in a small open boat on an unknown ocean? Meg Keneally’s debut solo novel…
1820 Sarah McCaffrey, fleeing arrest for her part in a failed rebellion, thinks she has escaped when she finds herself aboard the Serpent, bound from London to the colony of…
First published in Australia by Echo, a division of Bonnier Zaffre in 2018. –Title page verso.
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In the Port Macquarie penal settlement for second offenders, at the edge of the known world, gentleman convict Hugh Monsarrat hungers for freedom. Originally transported for forging documents passing himself…
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In the third instalment of the Monsarrat series, Hugh Llewelyn Monsarrat and his trusty housekeeper, Mrs Mulrooney, are sent to remote Maria Island to solve the murder of Bart Harefield…
Henry Hallward, editor of the Sydney Chronicle, has been imprisoned for criminal libel so often he can edit the newspaper from his cell.
While awaiting trial during one of his…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A memoir of Tom’s journey around the world to discover the complete story of Oskar Schindler and that list.
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…
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?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
