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Author
Publisher
Sceptre
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Sceptre
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a New South Wales farming community lies a camp housing Italian, Korean and Japanese prisoners of war. For their guards and the locals, many with loved ones away at war, captive or dead, it is hard to know how to treat them - with disdain or compassion? Alice, a young woman leading a dull life on her father-in-law's farm, is one of those with a husband held prisoner in Europe. When an Italian POW and anarchist is assigned to work on...
Author
Publisher
Sceptre
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
On the island of St Helena in the south Atlantic ocean, Napoleon spends his last years in exile. It is a hotbed of gossip and secret liaisons, where a blind eye is turned to relations between colonials and slaves. The disgraced emperor is subjected to vicious and petty treatment by his captors, but he forges an unexpected ally: a rebellious British girl, Betsy, who lives on the island with her family and becomes his unlikely friend. Based on fact,...
Author
Publisher
Sceptre
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Expelled from the archdiocese of Sydney as a young priest for his outspoken views on the Vietnam War, Father Frank Docherty returns to Australia in 1996 to speak at a conference on paedophilia within the Catholic Church. He had hoped to spend time with his mother and old friends. Instead, he finds himself caught up in the cases of two people who claim to have been sexually abused by an eminent Sydney cleric - one the son of Docherty's former parishioner,...
Author
Publisher
Sceptre
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father's dairy farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Used to tending the sick as they are, nothing could have prepared them for what they had to confront, first in the Dardanelles, then on the Western Front.
Author
Series
Publisher
Point Blank
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In the Port Macquarie penal settlement for second offenders, at the edge of the known world, gentleman convict Hugh Monsarrat hungers for freedom. Originally transported for forging documents passing himself off as a lawyer, he is now the trusted clerk of the settlement's commandant. His position has certain advantages, such as being able to spend time in the Government House kitchen, being supplied with outstanding cups of tea by housekeeper Hannah...