In this spirited history of the remarkable first four years of the convict settlement of Australia, Thomas Keneally offers us a human view of a fascinating piece of history. Combining the authority of a renowned historian with a brilliant narrative flair...more details Format:Paperback Pages:385
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9780297829782
Most people know little more about the US President Abraham Lincoln than how he met his end - assassinated in a box at the theatre by a gunman. But as Booker Prize-winning novelist Thomas Keneally shows in this short but enthralling biography...more details Format:Hardback Pages:160
The ideal concise biography of an American icona now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth The self -mad e man from a log cabin...more details Format:Paperback Pages:183
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9780385722254
Hero, adulterer, bon vivant, murderer and rogue, Dan Sickles led the kind of existence that was indeed stranger than fiction. Throughout his life he exhibited the kind of exuberant charm and lack of scruple that wins friends...more details Format:Paperback Pages:416
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9781920831288
Disturbing and touching writings and illustrations from refugee detention camps, plus correspondence between Tom Keneally and Amanda Vanstone....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:128
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9781741750690
The first volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, from bestselling author Thomas Keneally who brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.
In this volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage...more details Format:Hardback Pages:628
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9781740513371
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...more details Format:Hardback
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9780753817407
Most people know little more about the US President Abraham Lincoln than how he met his end - assassinated in a theatre box by a gunman. But as Thomas Keneally...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
Marshalling the vast powers of narrative and historical re-creation that he brought to his international bestseller Schindler's List,"" Thomas Keneally has created a moving and provocative novel about a headstrong young Catholic priest in World War II Australia. As Sydney braces itself for a Japanese invasion...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9780340936290
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:432
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9781405882729
Contemporary / British English (Available June 2008) Thomas Keneally's famous novel tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, a businessman who risked his life every day during the Second World War to save as many Jews as possible. Steven Spielberg's film of Schindler's List won seven Oscars...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9780671880316
Winner of the Booker Prize
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction
"Schindler's List" is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9780671516888
Winner of the Booker Prize
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction
"Schindler's List" is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:400
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9781405880480
Contemporary / British English (Available June 2008) Thomas Keneally's famous novel tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, a businessman who risked his life every day during the Second World War to save as many Jews as possible. Steven Spielberg's film of Schindler's List won seven Oscars...more details Format:Mixed media product
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9780385526173
This is the captivating story behind "Schindler's List," the Booker Prize-winning book and the Academy Award-winning Spielberg film. Keneally tells the tale of the unlikely encounter that propelled him to write about Oskar Schindler and of the impact of his extraordinary account on people around the world. Thomas Keneally met Leopold "Poldek" Pfefferberg...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:272
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9780156798501
During World War II, David Pelham, a young British surgeon, parachutes into Yugoslavia and sets up a hospital to aid Tito's army. There he meets-and loves-the fiery Moja Javich...more details Format:Paperback Pages:216
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9781740944083
First title in the launch of Bolinda's Australian Classics series, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is an ongoing Australian literary classic, nominated for the Booker Prize and written by the multi-award-winning author...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9780732281496
When Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman the backlash from both Jimmie's tribe and white society initiates a series of dramatic events. As Jimmie tries to survive between two cultures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9781742677286
Jimmie Blacksmith is the son of an Aboriginal mother and a white father. A missionary shows him what it means to be white - already he is only too aware of what it means to be black. Exploited by his white employers and betrayed by his white wife...more details Format:CD-Extra
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9780099483748
In late-18th-century Britain, people were hanged for petty offences, yet crime was rife. This title tells the story of how Governor Arthur Phillip...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:528
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9780701178833
Governor Arthur Phillip, was in effect the despotic ruler of New South Wales. This book tells the story of Captain Arthur Phillip, the Commodore of the First Fleet...more details Format:Hardback Pages:544
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9780671885113
Keneally's magnificent story of a young officer in a penal colony during the founding days of Australia transports readers through layer after layer of life in Sydney Cove...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9781742676593
When Grace married the genial and handsome Captain Leo Waterhouse in Australia in 1943, they were young, in love - and at war. Like many other young men and women...more details Format:CD-Extra
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9781610390651
Famine may be triggered by nature but its outcome arises from politics and ideology. In "Three Famines," award-winning author Thomas Keneally uncovers the troubling truth--that sustained widespread hunger is historically the outcome of government neglect and individual venality...more details Format:Hardback Pages:336
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ISBN:9781742678665
This is the story of three great famines. The first is an Gorta Mór, the great hunger of Ireland, which began in 1846 and whose end-date is a matter of debate. The second is the less well-known but more deadly famine that struck Bengal in 1943. The third is the Ethiopian famine...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9781850894094
This book is an attempt at fiction. There are none the less references to Eritrean events of 1987 and early 1988, though these have sometimes been compressed or relocated for fiction's sake. Thomas Keneally who...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:392
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ISBN:9781400152919
With the authority of a renowned historian and the narrative grace of a brilliant novelist, Thomas Keneally offers an insider's perspective into the dramatic saga of the birth of a vibrant society in an unfamiliar land. A Commonwealth of Thieves immerses us in the fledgling penal colony and conjures up colorful scenes of the joy and heartbreak...more details Format:CD
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Morris L West;Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9781902881447
"Bruno was that perilous thing, a free spirit, and suffered death for his right to certain concepts. I knew from conversations with Morris that Giordano Bruno was a soul mate...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Patrick White;Thomas Keneally
ISBN:9780143105688
Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White In 1973, Australian writer Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature afor an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature.a Set in nineteenth-century Australia...more details Format:Paperback Pages:440
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Keneally Thomas
ISBN:9781742374482
In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed history of the Australian people, the vast range of characters who have formed our national story are brought vividly to life. Immigrants and Aboriginal resistance figures...more details Format:Hardback Pages:464
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Keneally Thomas
ISBN:9781742374505
The first volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, from bestselling author Thomas Keneally who brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.
In this widely acclaimed volume...more details Format:Paperback Pages:628
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Keneally Thomas
ISBN:9781921922237
Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1967
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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:247
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Nury Vittachi;Hua Keneally ThomasYu
ISBN:9789889706197
DIMSUM is a thrice-yearly publication of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival celebrating new Asian writing and exciting Asian voices...more details Format:Paperback Pages:136
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ISBN:9781740944267
Thomas Keneally's first novel. As Father Stenner, Whitton's President, put it, "A garish killing in a place for aspirants to the priesthood is...more details Format:Audio Book
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Keneally Thomas
ISBN:9781742011257
When Grace married the genial and handsome Captain Leo Waterhouse in Australia in 1943, they were young, in love - and at war. Like many other young men and women...more details Format:CD-Audio