Monsarrat and Mrs Mulrooney are sent to Sydney to investigate corruption that may go right to the top - to the office of the governor - and threaten the colony's fundamental rights to freedom of speech.
Tom Keneally (Author)
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 non-fiction 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 fiction includes Shame and the Captives, The
Daughters of Mars, The Widow and Her Hero, An Angel in Australia
and Bettany's Book. 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. In 2022, his novel
Corporal Hitler's Pistol was awarded the ARA Historical Novel
Prize.
Meg Keneally (Author)
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.
In 1997 Meg co-founded a financial service public relations
company, which she sold after having her first child.
For more than ten years, Margaret has worked in corporate affairs
for listed financial services companies, and doubles as a part-time
SCUBA diving instructor.
She lives in Sydney with her husband Craig and children Rory and
Alex.
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