Offers insight into the life of the Civil War president, including his early poverty and ambitions; the impact of religion, slavery, and business on his political views; his election; and his day-to-day conduct of the war.

Offers insight into the life of the Civil War president to cover his early poverty and ambitions; the impact of religion, slavery, and business on his political views; the fateful twists of his election; and his grim day-to-day conduct of the war. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House. This is the story of that killing and its repercussions.

On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife’s lover in Washington’s Lafayette Square, just across from the White House…this is the story of that killing and its repercussions.Thomas Keneally brilliantly recreates an extraordinary period, when women were punished for violating codes of society that did not bind men. And the caddish, good-looking Dan Sickles personifies the extremes of the era: as a womaniser, he introduced his favourite madam to Queen Victoria while his wife stayed at home; as minister to Spain, he began an affair with the queen while courting one of her ladies in waiting; and in his later years, he installed his housekeeper as his mistress while his second wife took up residence nearby.The brio with which Thomas Keneally tells the tale is equal to the pace and bravado of Sickles’ life. But, more than this, American Scoundrel is the lens through which the reader can view history at a time when America was being torn apart."A great piece of storytelling" —Guardian"A fascinating book…informative and entertaining" —Daily Telegraph"This has a thriller-ish propulsion…a highly readable book" —Sunday Express

Product Description: On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife’s lover in Washington’s Lafayette Square, just across from the White House ... this is the story of that killing and its repercussions. Thomas Keneally brilliantly recreates an extraordinary period, when women were punished for violating codes of society that did not bind men...read more

The best-selling author of Schindler's List re-creates the colorful life and times of nineteenth-century politician and military leader Dan Sickles, a notorious womanizer and scoundrel who killed his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, and thanks to the influence of political friends, including President James Buchanan, got away with murder. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Product Description: Book by Keneally, Thomas, Adam-Smith, Patsy, Davidson, Robyn

The outstanding final volume of acclaimed author Thomas Keneally's major new three-volume history takes up the story of Australia at the end of the Great War and explores its development as a nation during the tumultuous 20th century Australia emerged from World War I into a decade of profound change, characterized by a revolution in behavior among the young; by the first great age of consumerism; by the new and increasingly sophisticated impact of the movies; by secret right wing armies and the emergence of the Communist Party; and by two less remembered and very interesting PMs, the handsome, somber Stanley Melbourne Bruce of the Melbourne Establishment, and Jim Scullin, unpretentious Labor man of humbler Irish parentage. As in the two previous volumes, Keneally brings history to vivid and pulsating life as he traces the lives and the deeds of Australians known and unknown. As another war grew closer he follows the famous and the infamous through the Great Crash and the rise of Fascism, and explains how Australia was inexorably drawn into a war which led her forces into combat throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Pacific. At home an atmosphere of fear grew with the fall of Singapore and the bombing of Darwin, the Japanese advance and then the American Alliance and the arrival of General MacArthur. Peace brought its own problems with the Depression that left one third of Australians unemployed. Keneally believes too that the 1950s are misunderstood—depicted by some as an age of full employment, by others as the age of suburban spread and boredom under the serene prime ministership of Robert Menzies. But Menzies was complicated and so were the 1950s. The result of masterly writing and exhaustive research is a volume which brings Australia's more recent history to vibrant life.

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 equity in a promised land. Immigrants and Aboriginal resistance figures, bushrangers and pastoralists, working men and pioneering women, artists and hard-nosed radicals, politicians and soldiers all populate this richly drawn portrait of a vibrant land on the cusp of nationhood and social maturity. This is truly a new history of Australia, by an author of outstanding literary skill and experience, and whose own humanity permeates every page.

Stationed at an Australian penal colony in the 1790s, Corporal Halloran and his secret bride, Ann Rush, face ostracism and a tragic end

Product Description: The extraordinary Booker Prize shortlisted story of a black man's revenge against an unjust and intolerant society. Thomas Keneally was born in Sydney Australia in 1935. He studied to be a Catholic priest but abandoned his vocation to take up teaching and writing...read more

Half aborigine and half white, Jimmie Blacksmith is unable to fit into either culture and, after abuse and betrayal by whites, revolts in a spree of violence.

Governor Arthur Phillip, was in effect the despotic ruler of New South Wales. This book tells the story of Captain Arthur Phillip, the Commodore of the First Fleet, who was empowered to govern the colony and who then became the friend of Bennelong, one of the native aboriginal tribes, who found themselves interacting with the convicts.

A colorful history of the European settlement of Australia tells the story of Captain Arthur Phillip, the Commodore of the First Fleet, who was empowered to govern a colony comprised primarily of unskilled criminals and petty thieves, disgruntled military men, and a sometimes hostile native population. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

A history of the European settlement of Australia tells the story of Captain Arthur Phillip, who was empowered to govern a colony comprised primarily of unskilled criminals and petty thieves, disgruntled military men, and a sometimes hostile native population.

Product Description: Thomas Keneally's epic of the Civil War takes us into the lives of four remarkable characters in the embattled Virginia summer of 1862; a southern hospital matron who is also a Union spy, a British war journalist with access to both sides and two foot soldiers under Stonewall Jackson...read more

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. (historical fiction).

Product Description: Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in complicity by what they consider a crime, when the Great War begins in 1914 they hope to submerge their guilt by leaving for Europe to nurse the tides of young wounded...read more