Author(s): Tom Keneally

Fiction

When Sydney film producer Dimp Bettany discovers the memoirs of her ancestors, John Bettany and Sarah Bernard, she is convinced she has found the vehicle for her next masterpiece. Filtered through Dimp's correspondence with her sister, Prim, an aid worker in the Sudan, we are drawn into the lives of John Bettany, a man far ahead of his time, as he shares his vivid impressions of a new colony, and his future wife Sarah, a former convict who has been interred in the notorious Female Factory and who has a close friendship with an English murderess. Born in NSW in 1935, Thomas Keneally began his highly successful writing career in 1964. He won the Booker Prize in 1982 with Schindler's Ark, which was made by Stephen Spielberg into the Academy Award winning film Schindler's List. He is the author of seven works of non-fiction including his most recent blockbuster, American Scoundrel, and has written 25 works of fiction which include his latest novel, Bettany's Book, described as