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5th July 2009

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Keneally revisits the Ark

28.03.08

Thomas Keneally will revisit his most famous work with a memoir about the writing of Schindler's Ark. Carole Welch at Sceptre bought British Commonwealth rights excluding Canada in Searching for Schindler from Deborah Rogers at Rogers, Coleridge & White.

In the memoir, out in October, Keneally recalls how a chance encounter in 1980 with a Holocaust survivor helped by Schindler led him to the novel. He reflects on his early days as a writer when he had success, but lacked confidence, and on how Schindler’s Ark changed his life.

Welch said: "The book is interesting because he is a natural storyteller. It's particularly compelling the way he first heard the story, and the lives of the people that touched him along the way."

Rights deal Thomas Keneally