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A Bloody Good Rant: My Passions, Memories and Demons by Thomas Keneally
Category: Languages and Reference
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
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
Category: Languages and Reference
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 Dutiful Daughter by Thomas Keneally; Geordie Williamson (Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
It is the duty of a good child to let his parents know the second they turn into animals.Barbara Glover?s parents metamorphosed when she hit puberty, becoming bovine from the waist down. Fearful of her transformative powers, she tends diligently to them, keeping them like animals on the family?s remote ...Show more
A Family Madness by Thomas Keneally
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 Family Madness by Thomas Keneally
Category: Fiction
A disturbing love story about two families and the madness that threatens to consume them . . . Terry Delaney, a professional rugby player, leads a comfortable life with a genial wife and the occasional freelance job until he meets Danielle Kabbel. Obsessed and in love, Terry drops everything to pursue ...Show more
A River Town by Thomas Keneally
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
A Victim of the Aurora by Thomas Keneally
Category: Fiction
The thrilling story of an ill-fated expedition to the South Pole by the bestselling and award-winning author of Schindler's List. In the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of English gentleman- adventurers led by Sir Eugene Stewart launched an expedition to reach the South Pole. More than sixty ...Show more
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Thomas Keneally
Category: Politics | Series: Penguin Lives Biographies (Paperback)
The ideal concise biography of an American icon- now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth The self -mad e man from a log cabin, the great orator, the Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, the martyr-Lincoln's story is at the very heart of American history. But who was he, really? In ...Show more
American Scoundrel: Murder Love and Politics in Civil War America by Thomas Keneally
Category: Biography Memoir
Charming and ambitious, Dan Sickles literally got away with murder. His protector was none other than the President himself, the ageing James Buchanan; his political friends quickly gathered round; and Sickles was acquitted. His trial is described with all Thomas Keneally's powers of dash and drama, aga ...Show more