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Confederates by Thomas Keneally
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75With a new introduction by Thomas Keneally.'The best novel of the Civil War since The Red Badge of Courage'NewsweekAs the Civil War tears America apart, General Stonewall Jackson leads a troop of... -
A River Town by Thomas Keneally
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75In turn-of-the-century Australia, Tim Shea supports his young family by running a general store in a remote riverside town, where he finds the same hypocrisy and snobbery which made him emigrate from... -
The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally 9780340422632
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a play. As felons, perjurers and whores rehearse, their playmaker... -
The Dickens Boy by Thomas Keneally
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75By the Booker-winning author of Schindler's Ark, a vibrant novel about Charles Dickens' son and his little-known adventures in the Australian Outback.In 1868, Charles Dickens dispatches his youngest... -
Towards Asmara by Thomas Keneally
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75During the Eritrean struggle for independence from Ethiopia, four Westerners travel under Eritrean rebel escort through a land of savage beauty and bitter drought towards the ancient capital of... -
By the Line Thomas Keneally 9780340562314
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Schoolboy narrator Daniel Jordan, growing up in working-class Sydney during the Second World War, is confused by a world in which the religious dogma of his school conflicts with the communism of his... -
Shame and the Captives Thomas Keneally 9781444781281
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.92On the edge of a small town in New South Wales, far from the battlefields of the Second World War, lies a prisoner-of-war camp housing Italian, Korean and Japanese soldiers. For their guards and the... -
The Dickens Boy Thomas Keneally 9781529345070
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77By the author of Schindler's Ark and master storyteller, Thomas Keneally, a vibrant novel about Charles Dickens' son and his adventures in the Australian Outback.In 1868, Charles Dickens dispatches... -
The Dickens Boy by Thomas Keneally 9781982169152
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $20.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982169152Author Thomas KeneallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
The Widow and her Hero by Thomas Keneally
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'Exceptionally good...a master storyteller' Allan Massie, Scotsman'Both an absorbing wartime thriller and a thoroughly convincing study of grief' Sunday TimesIn 1943, when Grace and Leo Waterhouse... -
Gossip From the Forest by Thomas Keneally
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.15In November 1918, in a railway carriage in a forest near Paris, six men meet to negotiate an end to the terrible slaughter of the First World War. Threatened by famine and anarchy at home, the... -
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally 9781982151041
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982151041Author Thomas KeneallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
Shame and the Captives Thomas Keneally 9781444781274
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75On the edge of a small Australian town, far from the battlefields of the Second World War, a camp holds thousands of Japanese, Italian and Korean prisoners of war. The locals are unsure how to treat... -
Crimes of the Father Thomas Keneally 9781473625389
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Father Frank Docherty has had his run-ins with the church authorities: in the early 1970s, he was expelled from the Sydney archdiocese for preaching against the Vietnam War and has lived in Canada as... -
The Book of Science and Antiquities by Thomas Keneally 9781529355239
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09A novel of breath-taking reach and inspired imagination, drawing on the discovery of Australia's oldest known human inhabitant. Shade lives peaceably with his second wife on the shores of a... -
Flying Hero Class Thomas Keneally 9780340560099
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75When Palestinian guerillas hijack a flight from New York to Frankfurt, they find an Aboriginal dance troupe among the passengers. Similarly dispossessed of their land, whose side will the Aborigines... -
The Book of Science and Antiquities Thomas Keneally 9781529355215
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.36In a novel of breathtaking reach and inspired imagination, the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's Ark tells the stories of two men who have much in common. What separates them is 42,000 years... -
Woman of the Inner Sea Thomas Keneally 9780340579749
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92The gripping story of one woman's odyssey into the Australian outback away from tragedy and towards regaining control over her life.'Marvellous, surprising, exhausting' Observer'A remarkable,... -
Victim of the Aurora by Thomas Keneally 9780340407868 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.53'A powerful and subtle writer...a remarkable novel' Spectator'Chilling and tragic' Ruth RendellIn the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of gentlemen wait out a raging blizzard in the... -
Schindler's Ark: Hachette Essentials by Thomas Keneally 9781529324976
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.41The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics. A carefully and lovingly curated selection of distinctive, ground-breaking fiction and... -
The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally 9780340951880 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.23In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father's dairy farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Used to tending the sick as they... -
The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia by Thomas Keneally
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaols were bursting. From this situation was born the... -
The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia by Thomas Keneally 9780099483748 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.38The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaols were bursting. From this situation was born the... -
Schindler's Ark: The Booker Prize winning novel filmed as 'Schindler's List' by Thomas Keneally
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $9.33***Winner of the Booker Prize***'ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITERS' Spectator'Extraordinary' Graham Greene 'Powerful' The Times 'Marvellous' Sunday TimesThe acclaimed bestselling classic of... -
Our Country's Good: Based on the novel 'The Playmaker' by Thomas Keneally Timberlake Wertenbaker 9781350097889
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.47Australia 1789. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who... -
Searching For Schindler: The true story behind the Booker Prize winning novel 'Schindler's Ark' by Thomas Keneally
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as Tom Keneally reveals in this absorbing memoir, luck and the dogged... -
Our Country's Good: Based on the Novel the "Playmaker" by Thomas Keneally by Timberlake Wertenbaker 9780413737403 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.57Australia 1789. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who... -
Free Fall by William Golding
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'Marvellous.' A.S. Byatt'Astonishing.' John Gray'Luminous.' Rose TremainI could take whichever I would of these paths.Sammy Mountjoy is an artist who has risen from poverty to see his pictures hung... -
Jakob's Colours Lindsay Hawdon 9781444797664
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Inspired by the lost voices of the Romany Holocaust this heartbreaking and tender novel will appeal to readers who loved Sophie's Choice, Schindler's Ark and The Book Thief.Austria, 1944. Jakob, a... -
The Dead Men by J. C. Harvey 9781838953478
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'A vivid, gripping story, beautifully handled, with a gem on every page' - Tracy Chevalier'Once again J.C. Harvey has cleared the high bar in historical fiction by a mile.' - S. W. Perry'Vibrant,... -
Witness Louise Milligan 9780733644634
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $20.21A masterful and deeply troubling expose, Witness is the culmination of five years' research for award-winninginvestigative journalist Louise Milligan.Throughout her career charting the experiences of... -
Best Wishes: The funny new book from the bestselling, much loved and eternally hopeful author of The Land Before Avocado and Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover 9780733343100
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.14Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time.LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INDIE BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKPEOPLE NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 'I wish I could think, hope,... -
Guts and Glory: Diggers, Sport and War by Peter Rees 9780733344220
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.14From one of Australia's leading military historians and biographers, Peter Rees, comes Guts and Glory, an enthralling history of the way in which sport is ever present in the wars fought by, or... -
How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe by Thomas Cahill
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.02'Shamelessly engaging, effortlessly scholarly, utterly refreshing history of the Irish soul and its huge contribution to Western culture' Thomas KeneallyIreland played the central role in maintaining... -
The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies by Ella Berthoud
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Mumsnet 'Best Books for Christmas 2016''Ideal for anyone who has ever wondered what on earth to read next' SJ WATSON'Witty, engaging and informative. The sort of book you choose for a friend and end... -
The Maid of Buttermere by Melvyn Bragg 9780340423738 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.22'This is historical fiction with a human face'Peter Ackroyd, The Times'A vivid and erudite tour de force'Penelope Lively, Booker Prize-winning author of Moon Tiger'A skilled, ornate and convincing... -
The Maid of Buttermere by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Melvyn Bragg's highly acclaimed, bestselling historical novel, the story behind one of the 19th century's greatest scandals.'This is the story of an impostor and bigamist, a self-styled Colonel Hope,... -
Lost in Spain by Dave Hadfield 9780993510182
Booksplease Price: $12.42Lost in Spain is the result of the dying wish of author Dave Hadfield's oldest friend's wife, Barb, to have her ashes scattered along the route traced by Laurie Lee when he walked from Gloucester to... -
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of... -
Voss by Patrick White
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.08Voss describes an epic journey, both physical and spiritual. The eponymous hero, Johann Voss, is based on Ludwig Leichhardt, the nineteenth-century German explorer and naturalist who had already...