Tom Keneally
Thomas Keneally won the Booker Prize in 1982 with Schindler's Ark, later made into the Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List by Steven Spielberg. His non-fiction, includes the memoir Searching For Schindler and Three Famines, an LA Times Book of the Year, and the histories The Commonwealth Of Thieves, The Great Shame and American Scoundrel. His fiction, includes The Widow And Her Hero (shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award), An Angel In Australia and Bettany's Book. His novels The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest, and Confederates were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while Bring Larks and Heroes and Three Cheers For The Paraclete won the Miles Franklin Award. The People's Train was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia division.
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Last night at the launch down at Pier 9 on Sydney Harbour, we waited with bated breath as Chip Rolley announced the 2012 Sydney Writers’ Festival program. It was definitely worth the wait – this year we’re being treated to a spectacular program and we’re really excited about all of the international and local Random House authors who will be appearing at the festival. With...
I thought it would be a breeze to write about ten of my favourite Australian books for Australia Day, but each time I have thought about bringing my fingers to the keyboard, I change the books I want to include. One solution is to restrict myself to fiction only. Of course this means I won’t be able to mention Recollections of a Bleeding Heart by Don Watson (but this would be perfect to get...
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Books by Tom Keneally
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The Daughters Of Mars
by Tom KeneallyPublished: 01/06/2012
Escaping the pain and guilt of their mother’s death, and the future they inherited, the Durance sisters leave Australia to nurse on the front during WWI.
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Three Famines
by Tom KeneallyPublished: 01/09/2011
A standout history told with Tom Keneally panache.
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The People's Train
by Tom KeneallyPublished: 01/07/2010
'Thomas Keneally is one of the historical novel's most expert practitioners, and his new book sees him back on the form that produced SCHINDLER'S ARK' Giles Foden, Guardian
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Searching For Schindler
by Tom KeneallyPublished: 01/09/2008
A memoir of Tom’s journey around the world to discover the complete story of Oskar Schindler and that list.
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Three Cheers For The Paraclete
by Tom KeneallyPublished: 01/04/2008
Winner of the 1968 Miles Franklin Award
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The Widow And Her Hero
by Tom KeneallyPublished: 01/03/2008
To be a hero's wife in times supposedly suited to the heroic caused a woman to swallow doubt...'
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The Commonwealth Of Thieves
by Tom KeneallyPublished: 03/12/2007
A brilliant recreation of the first four years of white settlement in Australia by acclaimed author Tom Keneally.
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An Angel In Australia
by Tom KeneallyPublished: 01/10/2003
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, a haunting and evocative tale of murder and loss of innocence in wartime Australia.
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American Scoundrel
by Tom KeneallyPublished: 01/08/2003
On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House ... this is the story of that killing and its repercussions.
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Bettany's Book
by Tom KeneallyPublished: 04/01/2002
Now in paperback, the epic Australian novel that was inspired by a diary Tom Keneally discovered while researching THE GREAT SHAME.
