The national bestseller from the highly-acclaimed author of Schindler's List, To Asmara is a dazzling tour def orce--the deeply moving and spellbinding story of an alienated Australian journalist's soul-searching journey across a war-torn Africa.

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 Supplement.

Tells the 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.

In 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.

A remarkable reappraisal of Joan of Arc and her legendary deeds

Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller

By the author of Schindler's Ark, a profoundly affecting tale of love, courage and sacrifice and a searing evocation of the First World War from a fresh, female perspective.

In 'Searching for Schindler', Thomas Keneally describes how he discovered the story of Oskar Schindler and once hooked, he went on to discover the full tale of the man who risked his life to save hundreds of Jews. We find out what happened to the survivors, to Schindler himself, and how the story was turned into a book and a film.

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Keneally's widely acclaimed classic novel of the American Civil War.