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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
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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 to ...Show more
Corporal Hitler's Pistol by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: 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: 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 by Tom Keneally
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 off mainland Ireland on the day he was charged to avoid a breakout and rebellion. He was transported initially to Bermuda, then to South ...Show more
Fanatic Heart (PB) by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: 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: Australian 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
Napoleon's Last Island by Tom Keneally
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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
Soldier's Curse (The Monsarrat Series #1) by Tom & Meg Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | 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 by Tom Keneally
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A brilliant recreation of the first four years of white settlement in Australia by Booker Prize-winning author Tom Keneally.In 1787, Britain banished its unwanted citizens - uneducated petty thieves, streetwalkers, orphan chimneysweeps and dashing highwaymen - to the fringes of the known world. So remot ...Show more
The Dickens Boy by Tom Keneally
$22.99 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
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