Crimes of the Father
"Stunning and heartrending, a work of fiction that has a terrible ring of truth." (Booklist)
Napoleon's Last Island
“Deft, engaging. . . unfailingly great reading. . . . Keneally is our greatest living practitioner of historical fiction. . . [and he] finds such eager drama and pathos in the least likely of settings. The book is a complex and mesmerizing success.” (Christian Science Monitor)
Shame and the Captives
Library Journal Review As in Schindler's List, Keneally draws on actual events and uses a broad backdrop-here, World War II in the Pacific-for his tale of a POW camp located in a remote corner of Australia. Tensions arise when the camp's commander, English colonel Ewan Abercare, disagrees with Australian major Bernard Suttor, in charge of […]