Thomas Keneally
Fanatic Heart
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Thomas Keneally is one of Australia’s most revered writers, and he has tackled many weighty subjects in his work, from Joan of ...Read Review
The Dickens Boy
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In 1868, Edward Dickens, the tenth, ne’er-do-well child of the famous author, emigrates to Australia at age sixteen to learn the sheep business. ...Read Review
The Book of Science and Antiquities
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Award-winning documentary filmmaker Shelby Apple is approaching the end of his days after being diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2015. As he contemplates his ...Read Review
Napoleon’s Last Island
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The story of Napoleon’s last years on Saint Helena is more legend than history to anyone who has studied history from an ...Read Review
Shame and the Captives
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In August 1944, the Second World War in the Pacific is winding down. In Australia, prison camps house enemy combatants. One of the camps, ...Read Review
The Daughters of Mars
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The First World War has become a staple of recent fiction. Thomas Keneally, in this epic novel told from an Australian perspective, enables ...Read Review
Australians: Eureka to the Diggers
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This is the second part of a two-part history of a nation which began as a British colony. Keneally is a writer of ...Read Review
The People’s Train
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This is a fictionalised biography of Artem Sergiev, prisoner in pre-revolutionary Russia who fled to Australia in 1911. In Thomas Keneally’s hands the ...Read Review
Commonwealth of Thieves : The Improbable Birth of Australia
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Novelist and historian Keneally (Schindler’s List) takes on the inauspicious early years of white settlers in his homeland in this densely-packed ...Read Review
The Widow and Her Hero
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This book starts with the hero’s death and comes full circle. For the past sixty years Grace has been haunted by the ...Read Review
