Peter Pierce
Writing novels, he’s Tom Keneally. Works of history – such as The Great Shame (1998) about the Irish diaspora to the USA and Australian in the nineteenth century, and this year’s American Scoundrel, concerned with the adventures of politician, general and amorist Dan Sickles – are by Thomas Keneally. There is more doubling in Keneally’s most recent novel, for he uses two titles. In this country, we have An Angel in Australia; in Britain, The Office of Innocence. Each suggests a different line of approach to a novel that seems in some ways old-fashioned, so instinct is it with his earlier work. By the way, Keneally’s novel count is now twenty-six, including two under the pseudonym ‘William Coyle’.
... (read more)The True Life of Jimmy Governor by Laurie Moore and Stephan Williams
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The Country of Lost Children: An Australian anxiety by Peter Pierce
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A Nation at War: Australian politics, society and diplomacy during the Vietnam War, 1965–1975 by Peter Edwards
by Peter Pierce •
The Silence Calling: Australians in Antarctica 1947–97 by Tim Bowden
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