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A Bloody Good Rant: My Passions, Memories and Demons by Thomas Keneally
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 Country Too Far by Rosie Scott & Thomas Keneally
$29.99 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
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 River Town by Thomas Keneally
$27.99 NZD
Category: Science 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
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Australians: A Short History by Thomas Keneally
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
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
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
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
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
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
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Australians | Reading Level: very good
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: Origins to Eureka: Volume 1 by Thomas Keneally
$49.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The first volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, from bestselling author Thomas Keneally who brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.
Australians: Origins to Eureka: Volume 1 by Thomas Keneally
$75.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Australians
Secondhand. The first volume of a unique 3-volume history of Australia where people are always centre stage, from bestselling author Thomas Keneally who brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story. Volume 1 will tell the story of Australia's Aboriginal inhabitants and ...Show more
Australians (Volume 3): Flappers to Vietnam by Thomas Keneally
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Australians
'A loving history of the Australian people' - Sydney Morning Herald..'.displays historical literacy, and plenty of humanity, empathy and compassion, all qualities rare in our public culture to be cherished when we find them.' - Weekend Australian. As in the two previous volumes of Australians, Thomas Ke ...Show more
Blood Red, Sister Rose by Thomas Keneally
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
The story of Joan of Arc has always held a special fascination for writers - among them Voltaire, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw and Jean Anouilh. Here Thomas Keneally transforms the legend, presenting a Joan who is at once a tough radical, an instinctive soldier, a nagging prophet and a touchingly vul ...Show more