Australians: Origins To Eureka

by Thomas Keneally

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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, bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our nat
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Australians: Origins To Eureka

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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. Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers, it is from their lives and their stories that Tom Keneally has woven a vibrant history
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Commonwealth Of Thieves: The Sydney Experiment

by Thomas Keneally

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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, rebellion and starvation. In this compelling, vivid and moving recreation of the first four years of 'the Sydney experiment', Tom Keneally examines how a motley 'theif colony' exiled by England as incapable of civilised develop
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Schindler's Ark

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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, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission, a compassionate angel of mer
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Schindlers List (Penguin Reader)

by Thomas Keneally

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Commonwealth Of Thieves: The Sydney Experiment

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"The tale begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences yet crime was rife. The gaols were bursting, and overflow prisoners were held in notorious hulks. Out of this situation was born the Sydney Experiment: criminals perceived to 'damage' British society would be transported. Australia was surrounded by sea and a very long way away. Thus Sydney was founded as '
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Commonwealth Of Thieves: The Story Of The Founding Of Australia

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In late-18th-century Britain, people were hanged for petty offences, yet crime was rife. The gaols were bursting and over-flow prisoners were kept in notorious 'hulks': rotting old ships moored offshore. Out of this situation was born the 'solution' - 'The Sydney Experiment': criminals perceived to 'damage' British society would be transported to Australia. Thus Sydney was founded as 'an open-air
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Office Of Innocence: A Novel

by Thomas Keneally

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Sydney, 1942, and in a nation threatened by a Japanese invasion, with husbands absent and sleek GIs present, a spirit of recklessness takes hold. Frank Darragh, an innocent young curate, finds the line between saving others' souls and losing his own begins to blur as he beomes entangled with a menage a trois and dangerously attracted to a married woman whose husband is a POW, who confesses that sh
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Schindler's List

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Contemporary / British English (Availablenbsp;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, including Best Picture and Best Director.
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People's Train

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Artem Samsurov, a protégé of Lenin, makes an extraordinary escape from Tsarist Russia to reach sanctuary in Australia, but soon discovers that repression and injustice exist there too. Though distracted by an infatuation with a beautiful female lawyer, he throws himself back into the socialist cause, only to be imprisoned, then accused of murdering an informer. But he never loses his belief that
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Searching For Schindler

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In 1980 Thomas Keneally walked into a shop in Beverley Hills  to buy a briefcase, an impulse that was to change his life. For the owner ndash; Leopold Pfefferberg ndash; had a story he'd been trying to interest writers and Hollywood in for years. It was the story of Oskar Schindler.   In SEARCHING FOR SCHINDLER, Keneally describes how, once hooked, he went on to discover the f
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People's Train

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Artem Samsurov, a protégé of Lenin, makes an extraordinary escape from Tsarist Russia to reach sanctuary in Australia, but soon discovers that repression and injustice exist there too. Though distracted by an infatuation with a beautiful female lawyer, he throws himself back into the socialist cause, only to be imprisoned, then accused of murdering an informer. But he never loses his belief that
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Searching For Schindler

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The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as Tom Keneally reveals in this absorbing memoir, luck and the dogged persistence of one of ‘Schindler’s Jews’ were vital in bringing it to the world’s attention through his Booker Prize-winning novel, SCHINDLER'S ARK and the subsequent film, SCHINDLER'S LIST.Enter
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Bettany's Book

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When sisters Prim and Dimp come into possession of revealing documents concerning their ancestors, they begin to gain radically new perspectives on their roots. This novel traces the origins of white Australia and presents a portrait of two spirited young women, 150 years apart.
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Great Shame: A Story Of The Irish In The Old World And The New

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In the 19th century the Irish population was halved. This masterly book traces the three causes of this depletion; first the manine, second the Irish diaspora and the emigrations to places such as America and Canada and thridly the transportations of political activists to Australia. It is a quest for Keneally's Irish ancestors. Based on unique research among little-used sources, the characters an
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Playmaker

by Thomas Keneally and Thom Keneally

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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, Australia. Advertising in New York Review of Books and Village Voice Literary Supplement.
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To Asmara: A Novel Of Africa

by Thomas Keneally

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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, to research this tale, visited Eritrea under the protection of the Eritrean rebels -- memorably charts the experience of a group of travellers through the eyes of one of their own. Copyri
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Flying Hero Class

by Thomas Keneally

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Ned Kelly And The City Of Bees

by Thomas Keneally and Thomas Keneally

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1995 As Ned Kelly lies in the hospital with appendicitis, the last thing he expects is to have a bee offer him a gold liquid that shrinks him to apian dimensions. Together with Nancy Clancy (who speaks only in irritating rhymes) Ned rides off on the bee's back to live in the hive, where he is enchanted by his new friends; Romeo the lovesick drone, Basil the activist, and haughty Queen Selma. A wit
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Family Madness

by Thomas Keneally

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