Thomas Keneally
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
An English lieutenant is ordered to stage a play starring prisoners of the Australian penal colony he supervises in this phantasmagoric historical fiction masterwork from the author of Schindler’s List
In the penal colony of Sydney Cove, Australia, at the farthest reaches of the late-nineteenth-century British Empire, Lieutenant Ralph Clark has received a bizarre commission. In honor of the king’s birthday, Clark is...
In the penal colony of Sydney Cove, Australia, at the farthest reaches of the late-nineteenth-century British Empire, Lieutenant Ralph Clark has received a bizarre commission. In honor of the king’s birthday, Clark is...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Joining the war effort as nurses in 1915, two spirited Australian sisters, carrying a guilty secret, become the friends they never were at home and find themselves courageous in the face of extreme danger as they serve alongside remarkable women during the first World War.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The son of England's most famous author, Edward Dickens, is sent to Australia to make something of himself--or at least fail out of the public eye--where he works hard to prove to his parents and himself that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Sent away from his native Australia to Canada because of his radical preaching against the Vietnam War, apartheid, celibacy and other volatile subjects, psychologist and monk Father Frank Docherty returns home for a lecture only to be pulled into the worlds of a suicide victim and a nun who claim to have been sexually abused by a prominent monsignor.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the captivating story behind Schindler’s List, the Booker Prize–winning book and the Academy Award–winning Spielberg film. Keneally tells the tale of the unlikely encounter that propelled him to write about Oskar Schindler and of the impact of his extraordinary account on people around the world.
Thomas Keneally met Leopold “Poldek” Pfefferberg, the owner of a Beverly Hills luggage shop, in...
Thomas Keneally met Leopold “Poldek” Pfefferberg, the owner of a Beverly Hills luggage shop, in...
10) Schindler's list
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a German Catholic industrialist who, as a munitions manufacturer, saved more than 1,100 Jews from extermination during WWII by hiring them to work for him.