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American Scoundrel by Tom Keneally
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Charming and ambitious, Dan Sickles literally got away with murder. His protector was none other than the President himself, the ageing James Buchanan; his political friends quickly gathered round; and Sickles was acquitted. His trial is described with all Thomas Keneally's powers of dash and drama, aga ...Show more
Australians: Flappers to Vietnam #3 by Tom Keneally; Clare Drysdale (Editor)
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Series: Australians
The outstanding final volume of acclaimed author Thomas Keneally's major new three-volume history takes up the story of Australia at the end of the Great War and explores its development as a nation during the tumultuous 20th century Australia emerged from World War I into a decade of profound change ...Show more
Bring Larks and Heroes: Text Classics by Tom Keneally
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Text Classics
"At the world's end, it is Sunday afternoon in February. Through the edge of the forest a soldier moves without any idea he's caught in a mesh of sunlight and shade. Corporal Halloran's this fellow's name. He's a lean boy taking long strides through the Sabbath heat." A South Pacific penal colony in the ...Show more
Corporal Hitler's Pistol by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
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? When an affluent Kempsey matron spots a young Aboriginal boy who bears an uncanny resemblance to her husband, not only does she scream for divorce, attempt ...Show more
Crimes of the Father by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
A timely, courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy. Tom Keneally, ex-seminarian, pulls no punches as he interrogates the terrible damage done to innocents as the Catholic Church has prevaricated around language and points of law, covering up for its own. Ex-communic ...Show more
Fanatic Heart (PB) by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
A retelling of the life and exploits of Irish patriot John Mitchel, with a particular focus on his time in exile on Van Diemen's Land. John Mitchel, Irishman, lawyer, journalist, activist and politician, is a complex character. Charged with treason in Ireland and tried by an English judge he was snuck o ...Show more
Napoleon's Last Island by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
"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 Australian bush? When Tom Keneally discovered by chance at the National Gallery of Victoria that Betsy Balcombe, a young girl living on St Helena while ...Show more
Place at Whitton by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Tom Keneally's first novel, a psychological mystery, was published after his time in a seminary. Fifty years on, this anniversary edition is being released with a new author's note about the novel and fifty years of writing. In the shocking dirt of the cement floor, Wally lay now, indiscriminately felle ...Show more
Shame and the Captives by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: New 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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/Thriller/Espionage | 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 Daughters Of Mars by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: New 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