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The Commonwealth Of Thieves by Tom Keneally
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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 Daughters Of Mars by Tom Keneally
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
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
The Daughters Of Mars by Tom Keneally
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In the tradition of Atonementand Birdsong, the Durance sisters leave Australia to nurse on the front during WWI and discover a world beyond their imaginings.Shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Prize.Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in complic ...Show more
The Dickens Boy by Tom Keneally
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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
$33.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Monsarrat series book 4
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: Book Three, The Monsarrat Series by Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Monsarrat Series
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
The Soldier's Curse: Book One, The Monsarrat Series by Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: MONSARRAT SERIES
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 himself off as a lawyer, he is now the trusted clerk of the settlement's commandant. His position has ce ...Show more
The Unmourned: Book Two, The Monsarrat Series by Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: MONSARRAT SERIES
For Robert Church, superintendent of the Parramatta Female Factory, the most enjoyable part of his job is access to young convict women. Inmate Grace O'Leary has made it her mission to protect the women from his nocturnal visits and when Church is murdered with an awl thrust through his right eye, she b ...Show more
The Widow And Her Hero by Tom Keneally
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
To be a hero's wife in times supposedly suited to the heroic caused a woman to swallow doubt. I knew in general terms I was marrying a hero. The burden lay lightly on Leo, and to be a hero's wife in times supposedly suited to the heroic caused a woman to swallow doubt The Japanese had barely been turned ...Show more
To Asmara by Tom Keneally
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This national bestseller by the highly-acclaimed author of "Schindler's List" tells the deeply moving and spellbinding story of an alienated Australian journalist's soul-searching journey across a war-torn Africa.
Two Old Men Dying by Tom Keneally
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Pre-read / Used. Very Good condition. Learned Man is the child of humankind as we know it; of those who are thought to have travelled from the Rift Valley in Africa and to ancient Australia. Shelby Apple is an acclaimed documentary-maker. After making films about Learned Man?s discovery, in Vietnam ...Show more