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Napoleon's Last Island by Tom Keneally
Category: Audio
Bestselling author Whilst living in exile on St Helena, Napoleon exerted an extraordinary influence on young Betsy Balcombe. How did she get from Napoleon's side to the Australian bush? Betsy Balcombe as a young woman lived with her family on St Helena. They befriended, served and were ruined by their r ...Show more
Napoleon's Last Island by Tom Keneally
Category: Fiction
"Whilst living in exile on St Helena, Napoleon exerted an extraordinary influence on young Betsy Balcombe. How did she get from Napoleon's side to the Australian bush? When Tom Keneally discovered by chance at the National Gallery of Victoria that Betsy Balcombe, a young girl living on St Helena while ...Show more
Napoleon's Last Island by Tom Keneally
Category: Fiction
Whilst living in exile on St Helena, Napoleon exerted an extraordinary influence on young Betsy Balcombe. How did she get from Napoleon's side to the Australian bush? When Tom Keneally discovered by chance at the National Gallery of Victoria that Betsy Balcombe, a young girl living on St Helena while th ...Show more
Napoleon's Last Island (HB) by Tom Keneally
Category: Accessories
Whilst living in exile on St Helena, Napoleon exerted an extraordinary influence on young Betsy Balcombe. How did she get from Napoleon's side to the Australian bush? Betsy Balcombe as a young woman lived with her family on St Helena. They befriended, served and were ruined by their relationship with Na ...Show more
Place at Whitton by Tom Keneally
Category: Fiction
Tom Keneally's first novel, a psychological mystery, was published after his time in a seminary. Fifty years on, this anniversary edition is being released with a new author's note about the novel and fifty years of writing. In the shocking dirt of the cement floor, Wally lay now, indiscriminately felle ...Show more
Searching for Schindler by Tom Keneally
Category: Non-Fiction
In 1980 Tom Keneally was in Beverley Hills returning from the Sorrento film festival where The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith had been showing. Looking for a new briefcase, Tom meets the Polish-Jewish Leopold Pfefferberg Page aka Poldek and his life for the next few years is taken over by this charismatic an ...Show more
Shame and the Captives by Tom Keneally
Category: Fiction
Will keeping the Japanese, Korean and Italian POWs of the Second World War alive in Australia keep Australian POWs alive and well wherever they are? In the spirit of The Daughters of Mars, Tom Keneally's new novel brilliantly explores the intimacies of ordinary lives being played out against momentous w ...Show more
Shame and the Captives by Tom Keneally
Category: Fiction
Will keeping the Japanese, Korean and Italian POWs of the Second World War alive in Australia keep Australian POWs alive and well wherever they are? In the spirit of The Daughters of Mars, Tom Keneally's new novel brilliantly explores the intimacies of ordinary lives being played out against momentous w ...Show more
Shame and the Captives: The Tom Keneally Collection by Tom Keneally
Category: Fiction
Tom Keneally brilliantly explores the intimacies of ordinary lives being played out against momentous world events.In Gawell, New South Wales, a prisoner-of-war camp to house European, Korean and Japanese captives is built close to a farming community. Alice is a young woman living a dull life with her ...Show more
The Commonwealth Of Thieves by Tom Keneally
Category: Fiction
A brilliant recreation of the first four years of white settlement in Australia by Booker Prize-winning author Tom Keneally.In 1787, Britain banished its unwanted citizens - uneducated petty thieves, streetwalkers, orphan chimneysweeps and dashing highwaymen - to the fringes of the known world. So remot ...Show more
The Commonwealth of Thieves audio cd by Tom Keneally; Simon Vance (Read by)
Category: Audio
In 1787, Britain banished its unwanted citizens - uneducated petty thieves, streetwalkers, orphan chimneysweeps and dashing highwaymen - to the fringes of the known world. So remote was Botany Bay - the destination to which the overcrowded, disease-ridden convict ships were bound - that only one Europea ...Show more