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Australians: Flappers to Vietnam #3 by Tom Keneally; Clare Drysdale (Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | 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
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | 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: Literature
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: Literature
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: Literature
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: Literature
"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
Napoleon's Last Island by Tom Keneally
$22.99 AUD
Category: General 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 th ...Show more
Shame and the Captives by Tom Keneally
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
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
The Dickens Boy by Tom Keneally
$22.99 AUD
Category: General 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 Ink Stain: Book 4, The Monsarrat Series by Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature | 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 Power Game by Tom Keneally
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: The Monsarrat Series
Monsarrat and Mrs Mulrooney are sent to Maria Island in January of 1826, the very early days of the penal settlement there, to solve the murder of Harefield who sailed the government cutter between mainland Tasmania and Maria Island bringing all supplies and correspondence and directives - all of which ...Show more
The Power Game: Book Three, The Monsarrat Series by Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Monsarrat Series | Reading Level: 1
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 blackmail prompts Monsarrat to look further afield - and not everyone is happy . . . In this, the third in the Monsarrat ser ...Show more