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Authors: Thomas Keneally

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ALSO BY THOMAS KENEALLY

FICTION

The Place at Whitton

The Fear

Bring Larks and Heroes

Three Cheers for the Paraclete

The Survivor

A Dutiful Daughter

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

Blood Red, Sister Rose

Gossip from the Forest

Season in Purgatory

A Victim of the Aurora

Passenger

Confederates

The Cut-rate Kingdom

Schindler’s List

A Family Madness

The Playmaker

To Asmara

By the Line

Flying Hero Class

Woman of the Inner Sea

Jacko

A River Town

Bettany’s Book

Office of Innocence

The Tyrant’s Novel

The Widow and Her Hero

The People’s Train

NON-FICTION

Outback

The Place Where Souls Are Born

Now and in Time to Be: Ireland and the Irish

Memoirs from a Young Republic

Homebush Boy: A Memoir

The Great Shame

American Scoundrel

Abraham Lincoln

A Commonwealth of Thieves

Searching for Schindler

Three Famines

Australians

FOR CHILDREN

Ned Kelly and the City of the Bees

Roos in Shoes

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Copyright © 2012 by Thomas Keneally

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Originally published in Australia in 2012 by Vintage Australia

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ISBN: 978-1-4767-3461-3

ISBN: 978-1-4767-3463-7 (ebook)

Contents

Author’s Note

Book I

Murdering Mrs. Durance

Voluntary

The Archimedes I

Oasis

The Archimedes II

Making Friends

Again, the Business

Sister Talk

Black Ship

The Archimedes Gone

Bitter Lemnos

The Violation on Lemnos

Homewards with Doubts

Antipodes

The End of Lemnos

Book II

Rare Pyramids

The West Encountered

Coming Back

Cosmopolitans

The Chariot Descends

The Racecourse and the Château

Baincthun People

Casualty Clearing

At the Peak of All Mad Things

Spring and All Its Follies

A Summer of Stubborn Matrons

These Abnormal Days

Malice Without Ceasing

Bureau of Casualties

The Great Experiment

Shirker

Men Lost

The Fever People Talked Of

Sister to Sister

1918–1922

Acknowledgments

Further Reading

About Thomas Keneally

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