Vintage Australia - Trade paperback - 400 pages - $39.99
Tom Keneally's latest novel is set in the fictional town of Gawell but takes the events of the Cowra Breakout in 1944 as its inspiration. A mix of historical fact and legendary storytelling in true Keneally style it makes for another masterpiece from this great contemporary Australian writer.
About the author:
Thomas Keneally won the Booker Prize in 1982 with
Schindler's Ark, later made into the Academy Award-winning film
Schindler's List by Steven Spielberg. His non-fiction includes the memoir
Searching
For Schindler and Three
Famines, an LA Times Book of the Year, and the histories The
Commonwealth Of Thieves, The Great Shame and American
Scoundrel. His fiction includes The
Daughters Of Mars, The Widow
And Her Hero (shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award), An Angel In
Australia and Bettany's
Book.
His novels The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Gossip from
the Forest, and Confederates were all shortlisted for the Booker
Prize, while Bring Larks and Heroes and Three
Cheers For The Paraclete won the Miles Franklin Award. The People's
Train was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for
the Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia division.
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