{"product_id":"the-great-shame-by-tom-keneally-9780091840617","title":"The Great Shame","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe eagerly awaited paperback of an incredible work of history, highlighting social injustice and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"...a grandly conceived and prodigiously researched homage to his Irish forebears\" — The Age\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"...the range and coverage of this material is impressive ...his zest is infectious\" — Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"...engaging and meticulously compiled\" — Australian Financial Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the nineteenth century, the Irish population was halved. \u003cem\u003eThe Great Shame\u003c\/em\u003e is Thomas Keneally's astonishing work of non-fiction which traces the three causes of this depletion: the famine, the emigrations, and the transportations to Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBased on unique research among little-used sources, this masterly book traces eighty years of Irish history, told through the intimate lens of political prisoners—some of them Keneally's ancestors who served time as convicts in Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with Hugh Larkin, a...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46338691727596,"sku":"9780091840617","price":36.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18752373482220.jpg?v=1743743524","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-great-shame-by-tom-keneally-9780091840617","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}