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The novel ends when, as was common in their other occupied territories, the Japanese create a puppet government which is the revived Kingdom of Hawaii, ruling through a member of the Hawaiian Royal Family installed as King in the Iolani Palace; The Americans back on the mainland, humiliated by their losses to the Japanese, swear revenge and ...
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The Secret River by Kate Grenville (19th century colonial Australia) Jack Maggs by Peter Carey (19th century colonial Australia) The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (end of the 19th century) True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (Kelly Gang, 1878–1880) An Angel in Australia by Thomas Keneally (World War II) Oscar and Lucinda by ...
James Albert Michener (/ ˈ m ɪ tʃ ə n ər / or / ˈ m ɪ tʃ n ər /; [2] February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American writer. He wrote more than 40 books, most of which were long, fictional family sagas covering the lives of many generations, set in particular geographic locales and incorporating detailed history.
This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...
The collection is a sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Tales of the South Pacific, the collection that launched his career in 1947. In Return to Paradise , Michener revisits the islands and cultures of the South Pacific in the late 1940s, combining factual descriptions and tales set in such exotic places as Tahiti, Fiji, New Zealand, and ...
Fantasy alternate history combining vampires, the Medicis, and the convoluted English politics surrounding Edward IV and Richard III. Kelly Country: A. Bertram Chandler: Australian bushranger and rebel Ned Kelly leads a successful revolution against British colonial rule. The result is that Australia becomes a world power, but the Australian ...
Someone Like Me (novel) Sorry (novel) A Sport from Hollowlog Flat; The Squatter's Secret; Sticky Beak; Stingaree (novel) Stolen (Christopher novel) Stone Yard Devotional; Strandloper (novel) The Sundowners (novel) Swerve (novel)