Were the first European mothers whores or matriarchs?

Was the first generation of Australian children the luckiest or unluckiest on the planet?

How did this often cruel and brutal penal experiment lead to a coherent civil society?

To answer these and many more questions, Keneally has brought to life the high and the low, the convict and the free settlers of early Australian society.

Australians: Origins to Eureka is the first volume of a unique history where people are always centre stage. Hear the author tell these stories and his own at Mosman Library.

Thomas Keneally is one of Australia’s most renowned novelists and historians. For novels including Bring Larks and Heroes, Gossip from the Forest, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and Schindler’s Ark he has received awards including the Booker Prize, the Miles Franklin Award, the Los Angeles Book Prize and numerous others. His history of Irish convictism The Great Shame was published internationally, and The Commonwealth of Thieves brought our convict origins vividly to life.

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