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Corporal Hitler's Pistol by Tom Keneally
Category: Fiction
How did Corporal Hitler's Luger from the First World War end up being the weapon that killed an IRA turncoat in Kempsey, New South Wales, in 1933? When an affluent Kempsey matron spots a young Aboriginal boy who bears an uncanny resemblance to her husband, not only does she scream for divorce, attempt ...Show more
Fanatic Heart (PB) by Tom Keneally
Category: Fiction
A retelling of the life and exploits of Irish patriot John Mitchel, with a particular focus on his time in exile on Van Diemen's Land. John Mitchel, Irishman, lawyer, journalist, activist and politician, is a complex character. Charged with treason in Ireland and tried by an English judge he was snuck o ...Show more
The Daughters Of Mars by Tom Keneally
Category: Fiction
In the tradition of Atonementand Birdsong, the Durance sisters leave Australia to nurse on the front during WWI and discover a world beyond their imaginings.Shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Prize.Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in complic ...Show more
The Dickens Boy by Tom Keneally
Category: Fiction
In this joyful novel, our narrator is Charles Dickens's tenth child, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn. Sent, as his brother Alfred had been before him, at sixteen years of age, to Australia to learn to 'apply himself'. We follow his early Australian adventures in outback NSW learning to beco ...Show more
The Ink Stain: Book 4, The Monsarrat Series by Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: Monsarrat series book 4 | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Henry Hallward, editor of the Sydney Chronicle,is a thorn in the side of the colonial administration. He has repeatedly agitated for greater rights for convicts, angering local landowners and the new governor. He has also been highly critical of several prominent citizens, and recently published a story ...Show more
The Power Game: Book Three, The Monsarrat Series by Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
Category: Fiction | Series: Monsarrat Series | Reading Level: 1
When a boatman is murdered on a remote island off Van Dieman's Land, the authorities want to blame a famous, and very inconvenient, political prisoner. But the victim's history of blackmail prompts Monsarrat to look further afield - and not everyone is happy . . . In this, the third in the Monsarrat ser ...Show more
The Soldier's Curse: Book One, The Monsarrat Series by Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: MONSARRAT SERIES
In the Port Macquarie penal settlement for second offenders, at the edge of the known world, gentleman convict Hugh Monsarrat hungers for freedom. Originally transported for forging documents passing himself off as a lawyer, he is now the trusted clerk of the settlement's commandant. His position has ce ...Show more
The Unmourned: Book Two, The Monsarrat Series by Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: MONSARRAT SERIES
For Robert Church, superintendent of the Parramatta Female Factory, the most enjoyable part of his job is access to young convict women. Inmate Grace O'Leary has made it her mission to protect the women from his nocturnal visits and when Church is murdered with an awl thrust through his right eye, she b ...Show more
Two Old Men Dying by Tom Keneally
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian
Learned Man is the child of humankind as we know it; of those who are thought to have travelled from the Rift Valley in Africa and to ancient Australia.Shelby Apple is an acclaimed documentary-maker. After making films about Learned Man's discovery, in Vietnam and back home in the Northern Territory, Sh ...Show more
Two Old Men Dying by Tom Keneally
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Pre-read / Used. Very Good condition. Learned Man is the child of humankind as we know it; of those who are thought to have travelled from the Rift Valley in Africa and to ancient Australia. Shelby Apple is an acclaimed documentary-maker. After making films about Learned Man?s discovery, in Vietnam ...Show more
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