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Corporal Hitler's Pistol by Tom Keneally
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical 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
Crimes of the Father by Tom Keneally
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
A timely, courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy. Tom Keneally, ex-seminarian, pulls no punches as he interrogates the terrible damage done to innocents as the Catholic Church has prevaricated around language and points of law, covering up for its own. Ex-communic ...Show more
Fanatic Heart (PB) by Tom Keneally
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary 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
Napoleon's Last Island by Tom Keneally
38.00 NZD
Category: General 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
The Commonwealth Of Thieves by Tom Keneally
28.00 NZD
Category: Historical 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 Daughters Of Mars by Tom Keneally
40.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
In 1915 sisters Naomi and Sally Durance answer a call for nurses to join the war effort. They are escaping the family dairy farm in the Macleay Valley, and they carry a secret with them. Soon they are in Egypt, where they are put to work on the Red Cross hospital ship Archimedes as it patrols the Dardan ...Show more
The Dickens Boy by Tom Keneally
24.00 NZD
Category: Historical 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 People's Train by Tom Keneally
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Artem Samsurov, a charismatic protege of Lenin and an ardent socialist, reaches sanctuary in Australia after escaping his Siberian labour camp and making a long, perilous journey via Japan. But Brisbane in 1911 turns out not to be quite the workers' paradise he was expecting, or the bickering local Russ ...Show more
The Widow And Her Hero by Tom Keneally
27.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
To be a hero's wife in times supposedly suited to the heroic caused a woman to swallow doubt. I knew in general terms I was marrying a hero. The burden lay lightly on Leo, and to be a hero's wife in times supposedly suited to the heroic caused a woman to swallow doubt The Japanese had barely been turned ...Show more
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