Thomas Keneally is one of Australia’s literary giants. Tom - as it says on the inside flap of A Bloody Good Rant - has been 'observing, reflecting on and writing about Australia and the human condition for well over 50 years’. He’s published a number of histories on Australia. His novels include The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, Schindler’s Ark and he has won the Miles Franklin Award, The Booker Prize … we hardly need to go on. We recorded this chat when A Bloody Good Rant was first released … as he says it’s a book about his ‘passions, memories and demons’. We talk about all that here … as well as everything from Cook landing to his Father returning from the war to Gough Whitlam … Napoleon and beyond.