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, которые сильнее любви и привязанности — чувством общей вины и необходимостью хранить общую страшную тайну. Сестры добровольно отправляются на фронт — в разгаре Первая мировая. Ужасы войны становятся испытанием, через которое им предстоит пройти вместе. Сблизит ли это их или…

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 lives on the island with her family and becomes his unlikely friend. Based on fact, Napoleon’s Last Island is the surprising story of one of history’s most enigmatic figures and a British family who dared to associate with him. It is a tale of vengeance, duplicity and loyalty,…

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 abused by a now eminent cleric. If Docherty is to help her, he will be up against an institution bent on avoiding scandal. What is more, the accused man’s sister is the woman Docherty nearly broke his vows for long ago. This searing, impassioned novel captures the Catholic…

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 years later, Shade’s skeleton is unearthed near the now dry Lake Learned in New South Wales. The sensational discovery of so-called ‘Learned Man’ rewrites the history of Australia and fuels the Aboriginal people’s claim to be the land’s rightful owners – and has a lasting impact…

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.