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Roos in Shoes by Tom Keneally
$16.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Reading Level: very good
Searching for Schindler by Tom Keneally
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1980 Tom Keneally was in Beverley Hills returning from the Sorrento film festival where The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith had been showing. Looking for a new briefcase, Tom meets the Polish-Jewish Leopold Pfefferberg Page aka Poldek and his life for the next few years is taken over by this charismatic an ...Show more
Shame and the Captives by Tom Keneally
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 Daughters of Mars, Tom Keneally's new novel brilliantly explores the intimacies of ordinary lives being played out against momentous w ...Show more
Shame and the Captives by Tom Keneally
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 Daughters of Mars, Tom Keneally's new novel brilliantly explores the intimacies of ordinary lives being played out against momentous w ...Show more
Soldier's Curse (The Monsarrat Series #1) by Tom & Meg Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: The\Monsarrat Ser.
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 known world, gentleman convict Hugh Monsarrat hungers for freedom. Originally transported for forging documents passing ...Show more
The Commonwealth of Thieves : The Sydney Experiment by Tom Keneally
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Australia is the only modern society to have begun as a dedicated penal settlement. It was an experiment that should have ended like others of its kind in a stew of murder, rebellion and starvation. In this compelling, vivid and moving recreation of the first four years of 'the Sydney experiment', Tom K ...Show more
The Daughters Of Mars by Tom Keneally
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 carry a secret with them. Soon they are in Egypt, where they are put to work on the Red Cross hospital ship Archimedes as it patrols the Dardan ...Show more
The Daughters of Mars by Tom Keneally
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 imaginings. Shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Prize. Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in comp ...Show more
The Dickens Boy by Tom Keneally
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this joyful novel, our narrator is Charles Dickens's tenth child, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn. Sent, as his brother Alfred had been before him, at sixteen years of age, to Australia to learn to 'apply himself'. We follow his early Australian adventures in outback NSW learning to beco ...Show more
The Dickens Boy by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In the late 1800s, rather than run the risk of his under-achieving sons tarnishing his reputation at home, Charles Dickens sent two of them to Australia. The tenth child of Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn, had consistently proved unable ‘to apply himself ’ to school or life ...Show more
The Ink Stain: Book 4, The Monsarrat Series by Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Monsarrat series book 4 | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Henry Hallward, editor of the Sydney Chronicle,is a thorn in the side of the colonial administration. He has repeatedly agitated for greater rights for convicts, angering local landowners and the new governor. He has also been highly critical of several prominent citizens, and recently published a story ...Show more
The People's Train by Tom Keneally
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Based on a true story, this book brings the past alive and makes it resonate in the present. With all the empathy and storytelling skills that he brought to bear in Schindlers Ark, the author takes us to the heart of the Russian Revolution through the dramatic life of an unknown, inspiring figure.