Thomas Keneally

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  • Bibliography:
    47 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1968
  • Latest Book:
    May 2021
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Book List in Order: 47 titles

  • Bring Larks and Heroes

    Set in a remote British penal colony in the late eighteenth century, Bring Larks and Heroes explores the early years of European settlement of desperate men and corrupt soldiers to Australia, the world’s end. Corporal Phelim Halloran, an honest man...

  • Three Cheers for the Paraclete

    A young Catholic priest, Father Maitland raises eyebrows among the brothers of St. Peter’s the moment his young cousin and new bride spend the night in his room. But even when he’s trying to do the right thing, Father Maitland continuously finds ...

  • The Survivor

    A professor at an Australian university, Alec Ramsey has lived an eventful life, much of which he is reluctant to discuss. In the 1920s, he was a member of a small expedition to Antarctica that resulted in the tragic death of its leader and Ramsey’...

  • A Dutiful Daughter

    'MY PARENTS ARE OF A CERTAIN TYPE OF PERSON...ABOUT WHOM YOU CULD SAY THAT...THEY'RE SAFER IN JAIL.' SHOCKED AT THE ONSET OF PUBERTY AND THE CATASTROPHE SHE BELIEVES IT BROUGHT ON HER PARENTS, BARBARA HAS SINCE BEEN A MOST DUTIFUL DAUGHTER. BOUND IN ...

  • The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

    A tormented and humiliated mixed-race Australian man reaches his breaking point and takes terrifying revenge on his abusers in this critically acclaimed novel based on actual events In Australia at the turn of the twentieth century, Jimmie Blacksmith...

  • Blood Red, Sister

  • Blood Red, Sister Rose

    Jehannette, an illiterate peasant girl of seventeen, hears voices that tell her she must help the Dauphin become king. But this proves hard to accomplish in 15th century France as the British occupy parts of the country, including Rheims where the cr...

  • Victim of the Aurora

    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...

  • Passenger

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    Dust jacket art by Paul Bacon. From within the womb, Sal and Brian's unborn child relates his experiences: multiple threats to his existence, including the apparent end of his parents' marriage and his father's desire to have him aborted....



  • Confederates

    A powerful novel of America’s Civil War told through the voices of Confederate soldiers, turncoats, and Stonewall Jackson in the weeks leading up to the great slaughter at Antietam In the summer of 1862, as the Civil War rages on, a ragtag Confeder...

  • Schindler's List

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    A stunning novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and prison camp Direktor Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature,...

  • Ned Kelly and the City of Bees

    Ned Kelly would never have imagined shrinking his size in order to escape the dreary hospital bed where he’s recovering from appendicitis. But, that’s exactly what Apis, his new friend (who happens to be a bee), helps him do with the aid of a spe...

  • Gossip from the Forest

    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 German...

  • Season in Purgatory

    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 en...

  • A Family Madness

    The fatal and desperate politics of Eastern Europe collide with the comparative innocence and complacency of suburban Australian life in this powerful and disturbing love story about two families and the madness that invades their lives.

    Terry Dela...

  • The Playmaker

    Keneally's magnificent story of a young officer in a penal colony during the founding days of Australia transports readers through layer after layer of life in Sydney Cove, Australia. Advertising in New York Review of Books and Village Voice Literary...

  • To Asmara

    A disillusioned reporter joins three fellow Westerners on a journey of discovery through the raging fires of a brutal East African conflict With his own life in flux, Timothy Darcy, an Australian journalist, finds escape in the ongoing turmoil of ...

  • Flying Hero Class

    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...

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  • Office of Innocence

    Marshalling the vast powers of narrative and historical re-creation that he brought to his international bestseller Schindler’s List, Thomas Keneally has created a moving and provocative novel about a headstrong young Catholic priest in World War I...

  • Searching For Schindler

  • The People's Train

    Artem Samsurov, a charismatic protégé of Lenin and an ardent socialist, reaches sanctuary in Australia after escaping his Siberian labour camp and making a long, perilous journey via Japan. But Brisbane in 1911 turns out not to be quite the...

  • A Woman of the Inner Sea

    "Woman of the Inner Sea" is Thomas Keneally's strongest, most compelling work since his Booker Prize-winning "Schindler's List." Like that book, the story of "Woman of the Inner Sea" arises from a true incident, and once more the imagining of it is u...

  • Blackberries

    Austin North sees himself as a fine English teacher in his local high school. His students respect him, and he finds personal fulfillment in teaching them the power of poetry to move and inspire. However, Austin's self-perceptions are upset by his in...

  • The Widow and Her Hero

    When Grace married the handsome and worldly Captain Leo Waterhouse in Australia during the middle of the Second World War, she never doubted that she had married a hero and he would come back to her unscathed. But Leo never returns from a commando ra...

  • The Fear

  • An Angel in Australia

  • The Place at Whitton

    As Father Stenner, Whitton's President, put it, 'a garish killing in a place for aspirants to the priesthood is, by the world's standards, an exotic crime.' Father Stenner's forebodings were, if anything, well short of the mark. The killer was appare...

  • The Daughters of Mars

    From the acclaimed author of Schindler’s List comes the epic, 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...



  • By the Line

    Schoolboy 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 family's terrifying neighbour, the 'Comrade'. Refr...

  • Shame and the Captives

    Based on true events, this beautifully rendered novel from the author of Schindler’s List and The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War II prison camp, where Japanese prisoners resolve to take drastic action to wipe away their shame. ...

  • Napoleon's Last Island

    A 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 Batt...

  • Homebush Boy

  • Jacko: The Great Intruder

    Jacko Emptor is New York’s most infamous TV celebrity and most public trespasser. An affable Aussie, Jacko can talk his way on-camera into the homes of any ordinary American. Jacko soon finds himself hosting a televised hunt for a veteran’s missi...

  • Crimes of the Father

    From one of our greatest living writers, a bold and timely novel about sin cloaked in sacrament, shame that enforces silence, and the courage of one priest who dares to speak truth to power. Sent away from his native Australia to Canada due to his...

  • The Soldier's Curse

    From the “greatest living practitioner of historical fiction” (Christian Science Monitor) Thomas Keneally and his eldest daughter Meg Keneally comes the first novel in a fast-paced, gripping, and witty historical crime series.In the Port Macquari...

  • The Unmourned

    Charming gentleman convict Hugh Monsarrat returns in this second novel in the thrilling and spellbinding historical crime series from Thomas Keneally and his daughter Meg Keneally featuring his signature “fresh and engaging” (The New York Times) ...

  • Two Old Men Dying
  • The Power Game

    The final novel in a fast-paced and gripping historical crime trilogy from the legendary Thomas Keneally and his eldest daughter, Meg Keneally.Set in 1825 during Australia's colonial period at the notorious Port Macquarie penal colony, The Power Game...



  • Fanatic Heart

  • The Ink Stain

  • Schindler's Ark

  • Towards Asmara

  • The Book of Science and Antiquities

    Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of The Daughters of Mars and Schindler’s List, returns with an exquisite exploration of community and country, love and morality, taking place in both prehistoric and modern Australia. An award-winning doc...

  • The Dickens Boy

    The award-winning author of modern classics such as Schindler’s List and Napoleon’s Last Island is at his triumphant best with this “engrossing and transporting” (Financial Times) novel about the adventures of Charles Dickens’s son in the A...

  • A River Town

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    Fleeing to Australia to escape the repressive life of British-controlled Ireland, Tim Shea is alarmed by his new home's equally stifling social order and its inclination towards prejudice. By the author of Schindler's List. 25,000 first print...

  • The Tyrant's Novel

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    Thomas Keneally’s literary achievements have been inspired by some of history’s most intriguing events and characters, but in a rare reversal of time his brilliantly imagined new novel takes us into a near future that uncannily is all too fami...

Award-Winning Books by Thomas Keneally

Schindler's List
1982 Man Booker Prize -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Thomas Keneally has published 47 books.

Thomas Keneally does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Dickens Boy, was published in May 2021.

The first book by Thomas Keneally, Bring Larks and Heroes, was published in July 1968.

No. Thomas Keneally does not write books in series.
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