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The Daughters Of Mars by Tom Keneally
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the tradition of Atonementand 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 complic ...Show more
The Daughters of Mars by Tom Keneally
$19.95 AUD
Category: 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
$27.99 AUD
Category: 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
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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
Three Cheers For The Paraclete by Tom Keneally
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Winner of the 1968 Miles Franklin Award From the moment he allows his young cousin and bride to spend the night in his room, Father Maitland causes raised eyebrows and dark mutterings amongst the brothers at St Peter's. Time and again his efforts to do the right thing for his fellow men lead him into co ...Show more