Synopsis
About THOMAS KENEALLY
See more books from this AuthorA celebrated novelist (Schindler's List, 1982, etc.) and historian (American Scoundrel, 2002, etc.) writes the early history of the English settlers--the convicts and their keepers--of his native Australia.
May 20 2010 | Read Full Review of A Commonwealth of ThievesThomas Keneally looks at Australia’s origins as a land of petty crooks and ne’er-do-wells.
Oct 01 2006 | Read Full Review of A Commonwealth of ThievesKeneally (Schindler's List ) offers a novelistic chronicle of the founding of the colony now known as Australia, focusing on the first five years, 1788 to 179
Aug 07 2006 | Read Full Review of A Commonwealth of ThievesThomas Keneally's excellent new book, A Commonwealth of Thieves, presents the story of how the British government, faced with a swelling prison population, decided to remedy the problem by dispatching convicts to a settlement at the end of the known world: Australia, or New South Wales as it was ...
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