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The bestselling author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars returns with an "insightful and nimble...consistently fresh and engaging" (The New York Times Book Review) novel about the remarkable friendship between a quick-witted young woman and one of history's most intriguing figures, Napoleon Bonaparte, during the final years of his life in exile on St. Helena.In October 1815, after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bona...

This national bestseller by the highly-acclaimed author of "Schindler's List" tells the deeply moving and spellbinding story of an alienated Australian journalist's soul-searching journey across a war-torn Africa.

During World War II, David Pelham, a young British surgeon, parachutes into Yugoslavia and sets up a hospital to aid Tito's army. There he meets-and loves-the fiery Moja Javich, a resourceful partisan. Their love gives Pelham the strength to endure the atrocities of war as he seeks to avoid capture. Keneally has vigorously fleshed out "a bloody good novel" (Washington Post).

From the award-winning author of "To Asmara" comes a riveting and richly-textured tale of magic, terrorism, the loss of dreams, and the extraordinary powers of the human spirit. After terrorists hijack his plane, a dance troupe manager is transformed into a hero.

In this widely acclaimed volume, bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.

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The Booker Prize-winning author's "[I]important new book...As yet more glib headlines announce that East Africa is currently suffering a biblical failure of crops, rather than a failure of accountable government, this book could hardly be more urgent. "New York Times Book Review

Che cosa significava finire nella "lista di Schindler"? Chi era in realtà Oskar Schindler, giovane industriale tedesco cattolico e corteggiatore di belle donne? Basandosi anche sulle testimonianze di quanti lo conobbero, Keneally ricostruisce la vita straordinaria di questo personaggio ambiguo e contraddittorio. Ritenuto da molti un collaborazionista, Schindler sottrasse uomini, donne e bambini ebrei allo sterminio nazista, trasferendoli dai l...

Keneally offers a novelistic chronicle of the founding of the colony now known as Australia, focusing on the first five years, 1788 to 1793, when the initial flotillas of boats carrying convicts, their military guard, and administrators arrived in New South Wales.

The thrilling story of an ill-fated expedition to the South Pole by the bestselling and award-winning author of Schindler's List.In the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of English gentleman- adventurers led by Sir Eugene Stewart launched an expedition to reach the South Pole. More than sixty years later, Anthony Piers, the official artist of the New British South Polar Expedition, finally unveils the sobering conditions of their peri...

The vast range of characters who have formed Australia's national story are brought to life in this work of history by Booker Prize-winner Thomas Keneally, an author of outstanding literary skill and experience whose own humanity permeates every page.

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ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S BEST HOLIDAY READS 2014BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME'I love this novel' John Irving - 'Excellent' Sunday Times - 'enthralling' New York Times A powerful and affecting novel of a family which has moved readers everywhere What happens to a family when a lost child returns? In the four years since Justin's abduction his family has become a group of separate units, each nursing their pain and guilt. Now, when they should be at ...

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Schindlers lijst is het indrukwekkende, waargebeurde verhaal van de Duitse industrieel en zwarthandelaar Oskar Schindler, die ten tijde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog een fabriek had in de schaduw van het concentratiekamp Auschwitz. Op slimme wijze wist Schindler meer dan duizend van zijn Joodse arbeiders van de dood te redden. De getuigenissen van deze 'Schindlerjuden' verwerkte Keneally in Schindlers lijst. Het boek won de Booker Prize, de...

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The second volume of bestselling author Thomas Keneally's unique trilogy of Australian history in which people are always center stage In the continuation of an impeccably researched, engagingly written people's history, this is the story of Australia through people from all walks of life, from Eureka to Gallipoli. From the 1860s to the great rifts wrought by World War I, an era commenced in which Australian pursued glimmering visions: of equi...

A tale of personal prejudice and political obstinacy from the author of Schindler's List. In 1918 at Compiègne, France, a group of intractable men negotiate to forge the armistice ending World War I. The Allies press for total submission, the Germans angle for compromise. So they talk on and on, while the guns roar and men die.

In what is perhaps "the best novel of his career" (The Spectator), the acclaimed author of Schindler's List tells the unforgettable story of two sisters whose lives are transformed by the cataclysm of the first world war.In 1915, Naomi and Sally Durance, two spirited Australian sisters, join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father's farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Amid the carnage, the sisters' tenuous bond...