Лучшие произведения Томаса Кенилли

Действие романа основано на истинных событиях, происходивших в оккупированной Польше во время Второй мировой войны. Немецкий промышленник, начальник концентрационного лагеря Оскар Шиндлер в одиночку спас от смерти в газовых камерах больше людей, чем кто-либо за всю историю войны.

Впервые на русском языке — книга от создателя знаменитого «Списка Шиндлера», в которой блестяще соединились семейная история и исторический роман, рассказ о людях, о войне и людях на войне. Салли и Наоми — сестры, но они никогда не были особенно близки. События, связанные со смертью их матери, увеличили пропасть между ними, но в то же время связали их узами,…

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…

Father Frank Docherty has had his run-ins with the church authorities: in the early 1970s, he was expelled from the Sydney archdiocese for preaching against the Vietnam War and has lived in Canada as a monk ever since. Twenty-five years later, back in Australia to give a lecture about celibacy and paedophile priests, he comes across an ex-nun who claims to have been…

A novel of breath-taking reach and inspired imagination, drawing on the discovery of Australia’s oldest known human inhabitant. Shade lives peaceably with his second wife on the shores of a bountiful lake. Conscious of ageing but still vigorous, when called on by the spirit ancestors to sacrifice himself for the sake of his clan, he knows he must obey. Over 40,000…

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.
As felons, perjurers and whores rehearse, their playmaker becomes strangely seduced.
For the play's power is mirrored in the rich, varied life of this primitive land, and, not least, in the convict and actress, Mary Brenham.