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Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published thirty novels since. They include Schindler's Ark, which won the Booker Prize in 1982 and was subsequently made into the film Schindler's List, and The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith, Confederates and Gossip From The Forest, each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His most recent novels are The Daughters Of Mars, which was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in 2013, Shame and the Captives and Napoleon's Last Island. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including his memoir Homebush Boy, Searching for Schindler and Australians. He is married with two daughters and lives in Sydney.
Genres: Historical, Literary Fiction
New Books
Novels
The Place at Whitton (1964)
The Fear (1965)
Bring Larks and Heroes (1967)
Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968)
The Survivor (1969)
A Dutiful Daughter (1971)
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972)
Blood Red, Sister Rose (1974)
Gossip from the Forest (1975)
Season in Purgatory (1976)
Victim of the Aurora (1977)
Ned Kelly and the City of Bees (1978)
Confederates (1979)
Passenger (1979)
The Cut-Rate Kingdom (1980)
Bullie's House (1981)
Schindler's Ark (1982)
aka Schindler's List
A Family Madness (1985)
The Playmaker (1987)
To Asmara (1989)
aka Towards Asmara
Act of Grace (1989) (as by William Coyle)
By the Line (1989)
Flying Hero Class (1991)
Chief of Staff (1992) (as by William Coyle)
Woman of the Inner Sea (1992)
Jacko (1993)
A River Town (1995)
Bettany's Book (2000)
The Office of Innocence (2002)
The Tyrant's Novel (2003)
Widow and Her Hero (2007)
The People's Train (2009)
The Daughters of Mars (2012)
Shame and the Captives (2014)
Napoleon's Last Island (2016)
Crimes of the Father (2017)
The Book of Science and Antiquities (2018)
The Dickens Boy (2020)
The Great Hunger (2021) (with others)
Fanatic Heart (2023)
The Fear (1965)
Bring Larks and Heroes (1967)
Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968)
The Survivor (1969)
A Dutiful Daughter (1971)
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972)
Blood Red, Sister Rose (1974)
Gossip from the Forest (1975)
Season in Purgatory (1976)
Victim of the Aurora (1977)
Ned Kelly and the City of Bees (1978)
Confederates (1979)
Passenger (1979)
The Cut-Rate Kingdom (1980)
Bullie's House (1981)
Schindler's Ark (1982)
aka Schindler's List
A Family Madness (1985)
The Playmaker (1987)
To Asmara (1989)
aka Towards Asmara
Act of Grace (1989) (as by William Coyle)
By the Line (1989)
Flying Hero Class (1991)
Chief of Staff (1992) (as by William Coyle)
Woman of the Inner Sea (1992)
Jacko (1993)
A River Town (1995)
Bettany's Book (2000)
The Office of Innocence (2002)
The Tyrant's Novel (2003)
Widow and Her Hero (2007)
The People's Train (2009)
The Daughters of Mars (2012)
Shame and the Captives (2014)
Napoleon's Last Island (2016)
Crimes of the Father (2017)
The Book of Science and Antiquities (2018)
The Dickens Boy (2020)
The Great Hunger (2021) (with others)
Fanatic Heart (2023)
Collections
Novellas and Short Stories
Non fiction
Moses the Lawgiver (1975)
Outback (1983)
Australia: Beyond the Dreamtime (1987) (with Patsy Adam-Smith and Robyn Davidson)
Now and In Time To Be (1991)
The Place Where Souls Are Born (1992)
The Utility Player (1993)
Memoirs from a Young Republic (1993)
Our Republic (1993)
Homebush Boy (1995)
The Great Shame (1998)
American Scoundrel (2002)
Lincoln (2002)
Dimsum Asia's Literary Journal (2005) (with Yu Hua)
The Commonwealth of Thieves (2005)
Searching for Schindler (2008)
Australians (2009)
Three Famines (2011)
Australians: Eureka to the Diggers (2011)
Australians: Flappers to Vietnam (2016)
A Bloody Good Rant (2021)
Outback (1983)
Australia: Beyond the Dreamtime (1987) (with Patsy Adam-Smith and Robyn Davidson)
Now and In Time To Be (1991)
The Place Where Souls Are Born (1992)
The Utility Player (1993)
Memoirs from a Young Republic (1993)
Our Republic (1993)
Homebush Boy (1995)
The Great Shame (1998)
American Scoundrel (2002)
Lincoln (2002)
Dimsum Asia's Literary Journal (2005) (with Yu Hua)
The Commonwealth of Thieves (2005)
Searching for Schindler (2008)
Australians (2009)
Three Famines (2011)
Australians: Eureka to the Diggers (2011)
Australians: Flappers to Vietnam (2016)
A Bloody Good Rant (2021)
Series contributed to
Awards
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"Rebecca Starford seems to be the inheritor of the cool, narrative elegance of Graham Greene and John le Carré. Her building of the tale to reach the critical moral apogee of this book seems effortless, and she has found a fascinating and unexpected World War II corner of espionage and intelligence to exploit for a plot that runs like milk and honey."
A Theatre for Dreamers (2020)
Polly Samson
"It is a grand read and the prose falls translucently like the air ... Superb work and a delightful novel."
Sashenka (2008)
(Moscow Trilogy, book 1)
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"A furiously readable novel - it's hard to put SASHENKA down. SASHENKA is a brilliantly-plotted novel which brings home with unique intimacy the joys and hopes of Russian families, the Revolution, the horror of the Thirties - and a new generation's penetration of KGB files...."
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"An Australia masterwork, one of those books which re-make a world anew... it will attract and excite readers the world over."
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