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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 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: Australiana
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: Classics | 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 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
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Thomas Keneally
Category: Biography | 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
An Angel in Australia (CD) by Thomas Keneally; Gary Down (Read by)
Category: Audio
Sydney, 1942 - the year of the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget submarines. Australia is surely doomed to fall to the Japanese ...Through the eyes of a naive young priest we see into the hearts of a people who fear the end of life as t ...Show more
An Introduction to Australian Book Publishing by Richard Smart (Editor); Thomas Keneally (Foreword by)
Category: Reference
Aimed at newcomers to the world of books or anyone considering a publishing career, this guide is also a useful refresher for those already in the industry who are unsure how everything fits together.
Australians: A Short History by Thomas Keneally
Category: Australiana
Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed three volume history of the Australian people from origins to Vietnam gave us a robust, vibrant and page-turning narrative that brought to life the vast range of characters who have formed the Australian national story. Here these volumes are brought together for a sto ...Show more
Australians: A short history by Thomas Keneally
Category: Australiana
Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed three volume history of the Australian people from origins to Vietnam gave us a robust, vibrant and page-turning narrative that brought to life the vast range of characters who have formed the Australian national story. Here these volumes are brought together for a sto ...Show more
Australians: Eureka to the Diggers by Thomas Keneally
Category: Australiana
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
Australians: From Eureka to the Diggers: Volume 2 by Thomas Keneally
Category: Australiana | Series: Australians
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