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A Bloody Good Rant: My Passions, Memories and Demons by Thomas Keneally
$34.99 AUD
$39.99 (12% off)
Category: Biography
Following a lifetime observing Australia and its people, Tom Keneally turns inwards to reflect on what has been important to him. 'When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The Utopian strain was very strong . . . if we weren ...Show more
A Bloody Good Rant: My passions, memories and demons by Thomas Keneally
$22.99 AUD
$24.99 (8% off)
Category: Biography
Following a lifetime observing Australia and its people, Tom Keneally turns inwards to reflect on what has been important to him. 'When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite the Depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The utopian strain was very strong . . . if we we ...Show more
A Country Too Far by Rosie Scott & Thomas Keneally
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
One of the central moral issues of our time is the question of asylum seekers, arguably the most controversial subject in Australia today. In this landmark anthology, twenty-seven of Australia's finest writers have focused their intelligence and creativity on the theme of the dispossessed, bringing a wh ...Show more
A Family Madness by Thomas Keneally
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Inspired by a true incident, this powerful and disturbing novel focuses on Rudi Kabbel, a survivor of Nazi-occupied Belorussia, and Terry Delaney, a young Australian rugby player who falls in love with Kabbel's daughter. With the optimism and innocence of those unscathed by war, Delaney gropes to unders ...Show more
A River Town by Thomas Keneally
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In turn-of-the-century Australia, Tim Shea supports his young family by running a general store in a remote riverside town, where he finds the same hypocrisy and snobbery which made him emigrate from Ireland, and suffers a series of misfortunes which take him to the brink of disaster. Capturing the spir ...Show more
Australians: From Eureka to the Diggers: Volume 2 by Thomas Keneally
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Australians | Reading Level: very good
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, bushrangers and pastoralists, working men and pioneering women, arti ...Show more
Blood Red, Sister Rose by Thomas Keneally
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The story of Joan of Arc has always held a special fascination for writers - among them Voltaire, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw and Jean Anouilh. Here Thomas Keneally transforms the legend, presenting a Joan who is at once a tough radical, an instinctive soldier, a nagging prophet and a touchingly vul ...Show more
By the Line by Thomas Keneally
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Schoolboy narrator Daniel Jordan, growing up in working-class Sydney during the Second World War, is confused by a world in which the religious dogma of his school conflicts with the communism of his family's terrifying neighbour, the 'Comrade'. Refreshingly unsentimental, this is the funny, ultimately ...Show more
Confederates by Thomas Keneally
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As the Civil War tears America apart, General Stonewall Jackson leads a troop of Confederate soldiers on a long trek towards the battle they believe will be a conclusive victory. Through their hopes, fears and losses, Keneally searingly conveys both the drama and mundane hardship of war, and brings to l ...Show more
Flying Hero Class by Thomas Keneally
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Palestinian guerillas hijack a flight from New York to Frankfurt, they find an Aboriginal dance troupe among the passengers. Similarly dispossessed of their land, whose side will the Aborigines take? Conflicts of loyalty, terror and revolutionary fervour form the explosive ingredients in this rivet ...Show more
Schindler's Ark: The Booker Prize winning novel filmed as Schindler's List' by Thomas Keneally
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Made into the award-winning film 'Schindler's List'. 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, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, w ...Show more