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=== Novels === * ''[[The Place at Whitton]]'' (1964) * ''[[The Fear (Keneally novel)|The Fear]]'' (1965) Rewritten in 1989 as ''By the Line'' * ''[[Bring Larks and Heroes]]'' (1967), winner of the [[Miles Franklin Award]], set in an unidentified British [[penal colony]] * ''[[Three Cheers for the Paraclete]]'' (1968), winner of the [[Miles Franklin Award]], comic novel of a doubting priest * ''[[The Survivor (Keneally novel)|The Survivor]]'' (1969), a survivor looks back on a disastrous [[Antarctic]] expedition * ''[[A Dutiful Daughter]]'' (1971), Keneally's personal favourite * ''[[The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith]]'' (1972), also filmed. Written through the eyes of an exploited [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal man]] who explodes in rage. Based on an actual incident. Keneally has said he would not now presume to write in the voice of an Aboriginal person, but would have written the story as seen by a white character. * ''[[Blood Red, Sister Rose]]'' (1974), a novel based loosely on the life of [[Joan of Arc]] * ''[[Moses the Lawgiver (novel)|Moses the Lawgiver]]'' (1975) * ''[[Gossip from the Forest]]'' (1975), tells of the negotiation of the armistice that ended [[World War I]] * ''[[Season in Purgatory]]'' (1976), love among [[Josip Broz Tito|Tito]]'s partisans in [[World War II]] * ''[[A Victim of the Aurora]]'' (1977), a [[detective fiction|detective story]] set on an [[Antarctic]] expedition * ''Ned Kelly and the City of the Bees'' (1978), a book for [[literature for children|children]] * ''[[Passenger (Keneally novel)|Passenger]]'' (1979) * ''[[Confederates (novel)|Confederates]]'' (1979), based on [[Stonewall Jackson]]'s army * ''[[The Cut-Rate Kingdom]]'' (1980), Australia at war in 1942 * ''[[Schindler's Ark]]'' (1982), winner of the [[Booker Prize]], later released and filmed as ''[[Schindler's List]]'' * ''[[A Family Madness]]'' (1985) * ''[[The Playmaker (novel)|The Playmaker]]'' (1987), prisoners perform a play in Australia in the 18th Century * ''[[Act of Grace (novel)|Act of Grace]]'' (1985), (under the pseudonym William Coyle) Published as ''Firestorm'' in the US * ''[[By the Line]]'' (1989)<ref group=lower-alpha>Revised version of ''The Fear'' (1965).</ref> * ''[[Towards Asmara]]'' (1989), the conflict in [[Eritrea]] * ''[[Flying Hero Class]]'' (1991), [[Palestinians]] hijack an aeroplane carrying an Aboriginal folk dance troupe * ''[[Chief of Staff (novel)|Chief of Staff]]'' (1991), (under the pseudonym William Coyle) * ''[[Woman of the Inner Sea]]'' (1992), Keneally retells a story once told him by a young woman that haunted his imagination * ''[[Jacko (novel)|Jacko]]'' (1993), madness and television * ''[[A River Town]]'' (1995) * ''[[Bettany's Book]]'' (2000) * ''[[An Angel in Australia]]'' (2000), also published as ''Office of Innocence'' * ''[[The Tyrant's Novel]]'' (2003), an Australian immigration detainee tells his story * ''[[The Widow and Her Hero]]'' (2007), the effect of war on those left behind * ''[[The People's Train]]'' (2009), a dissident escapes from Russia to Australia in 1911, only to return to fight in the revolution * ''[[The Daughters of Mars]]'' (2012), two Australian sisters struggle to nurse soldiers horrifically wounded in World War I * ''Shame and the Captives'' (2014), {{ISBN|147673464X}}, recounts the escape of Japanese prisoners of war in New South Wales during WWII * ''Napoleon's Last Island'' (2015) * ''Crimes of the Father'' (2016) * ''Two Old Men Dying'' (2018) * ''The Book of Science and Antiquities'' (2019) * ''The Dickens Boy'' (2020) * ''[[Corporal Hitler's Pistol]]'' (2021) * {{Cite book |last=Keneally |first=Tom |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1333614618 |title=Fanatic Heart |date=2022-11-01 |publisher=Vintage Australia |isbn=978-0-14-377781-6 |location=Milsons Point, NSW |oclc=1333614618}}<ref group=lower-alpha>Interview: {{Cite web |date=2022-11-25 |title=Fanatic Heart by Tom Keneally |url=https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/nightlife/tom-keneally/101701512 |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=ABC Radio |language=en-AU}}</ref><ref group=lower-alpha>Reviews: {{bulleted list|{{Cite web |last=Fraser |first=Morag |date=2023-01-13 |title=Tom Keneally's sparkling new novel is a book for our times |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/keneally-s-moral-outrage-drives-a-story-with-resonance-for-today-20230105-p5cajv.html |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |language=en}}|{{Cite web |last=Sharrad |first=Paul |title=In Fanatic Heart, Tom Keneally revisits the tumultuous life of an Irish rebel |url=http://theconversation.com/in-fanatic-heart-tom-keneally-revisits-the-tumultuous-life-of-an-irish-rebel-194038 |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=The Conversation |date=December 2022 |language=en}}|{{Cite web |last=McDonald |first=Ronan |date=2022-12-27 |title=Ronan McDonald reviews 'Fanatic Heart' by Tom Keneally |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/986-january-february-2023-no-450/9995-ronan-mcdonald-reviews-fanatic-heart-by-tom-keneally |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=[[Australian Book Review]] |language=en-gb}}|{{Cite web |last=Mayer |first=Erich |date=2022-11-07 |title=Book review: Fanatic Heart, Tom Keneally |url=https://www.artshub.com.au/news/reviews/book-review-fanatic-heart-tom-keneally-2591907/ |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=ArtsHub Australia |language=en-AU}}|{{Cite web |date=2022-11-11 |title=At 87, Thomas Keneally isn't done with history yet |url=https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/at-87-thomas-keneally-isn-t-done-with-history-yet-20221107-p5bw42 |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=Australian Financial Review |language=en}} }}</ref> ;The Monsarrat series, co-authored with [[Meg Keneally]] * ''The Soldier's Curse'' (2016) * ''The Unmourned'' (2017) * ''The Power Game'' (2018) * ''The Ink Stain'' (2019)
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