This vivacious novel is classic Keneally: historical figures and events re-imagined with verve, humour and compassion.
This is Tom Keneally in his most familiar terrain. Taking historical figures and events and reimagining them with verve, compassion and humour.
For years Dickens kept the story of his own childhood a secret.
Critically acclaimed author of The Ashes Trilogy, Ilsa J. Bick takes her new Dark Passages series to an alternative Victorian London where Emma Lindsay continues to wade through blurred realities now that she has lost everything: her way, ...
Paul Dombey is a cold, unbending, pompous merchant, and a widower with two children - Paul and Florence. His chief ambition is to perpetuate the firm-name. He dreams of passing...
Warren takes you on a journey into the workhouses, slums, factories, and schools of Victorian England, and into the world of Dickens.
The Mystery of Charles Dickens is illustrated with 30 black-and-white images.
If he can, then perhaps he'll be able to write once again. With stunning black-and-white illustrations by Greg Ruth, here is a literary mystery that celebrates the power of books, and brings to life one of the world's best-loved authors.
“Martin has made them all stark raving mad across the water.” he crowed to Forster in August of 1843. Among the things that rankled Americans (and cost him the friendship of his former booster Washington Irving) were observations like ...
Lloyd Jones. “Mr. Watts.“ “Pop Eye. Him," she said as she let herself down again. “It was in a book.” “What blimmin' book?” "Great Expectations.” I had given her three quick answers. The last one was the most stunning. I had lost her.
An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Shelby Apple is obsessed with reimagining the full story of the Learned Man—a prehistoric man whose remains are believed to be the link between Africa and ancient Australia.