Two literary legends have joined forces to create a new historical crime series, The Soldier’s Curse: Book One of the Monsarrat Series. Don’t miss Tom Keneally, author of Schindler’s Ark and The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, in this special conversation with Meg Keneally.
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Tom Keneally won the Booker Prize in 1982 with Schindler’s Ark, later made into the Steven Spielberg Academy Award-winning film Schindler’s List. His nonfiction includes the memoir Searching for Schindler and Three Famines, an LA Times Book of the Year, and the histories The Commonwealth of Thieves, The Great Shame and American Scoundrel. His novels The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest, and Confederates were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while Bring Larks and Heroes and Three Cheers for the Paraclete won the Miles Franklin Award.
Meg Keneally started her working life as a junior public affairs officer at the Australian Consulate-General in New York, before moving to Dublin to work as a sub-editor and freelance features writer. On returning to Australia, she joined The Daily Telegraph as a general news reporter, covering everything from courts to crime to animals’ birthday parties at the zoo. She then joined Radio 2UE as a talkback radio producer. For more than ten years Meg has worked in corporate affairs for listed financial service companies, and doubles as a part-time SCUBA diving instructor.
Dr Kim Wilkins was born in London and grew up in south-east Queensland. She is the author of more than 20 novels for adults and children, and writes across genres both under her own name and her pseudonym Kimberley Freeman. In 2012, she passed two million words of fiction in print, has publications in more than a dozen languages, and has been a bestseller in the United States. She has degrees in literature and creative writing, and is a senior lecturer in writing at the University of Queensland.
