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The Daughters of Mars by Tom Keneally
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In the tradition of Atonement and 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 comp ...Show more
The Dickens Boy by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In the late 1800s, rather than run the risk of his under-achieving sons tarnishing his reputation at home, Charles Dickens sent two of them to Australia. The tenth child of Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn, had consistently proved unable ‘to apply himself ’ to school or life ...Show more
The Dickens Boy by Tom Keneally
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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 Power Game: Book Three, The Monsarrat Series by Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | 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
Three Famines by Tom Keneally
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
This is the story of three great famines. The first is an Gorta Mor, the great hunger of Ireland, which began in 1846 and whose end-date is a matter of debate. The second is the less well-known but more deadly famine that struck Bengal in 1943. The third is the Ethiopian famine, which first sprung up in ...Show more
Two Old Men Dying by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: New 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