Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of “Schindler’s List,†will be releasing a new book with a new publisher this summer, Atria Books announced Tuesday.
Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, said it had acquired United States rights to two new novels from Mr. Keneally, who has already published 25. The first, “The Daughter of Mars,†is drawn from actual diaries and is about two sisters from Australia, both nurses, whose lives are transformed by World War I. It is scheduled to come out this August.
The second book will be a novel involving the stories of prisoners of war during World War II, the publisher said.
In addition to “Schindler’s List,†which under its original title, “Schindler’s Ark,†won the Man Booker Prize in 1982 and was turned into a 1993 Oscar-winning film by Steven Spielberg, Mr. Keneally wrote “The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith,†“Confederates,†and “Gossip from the Forest,†all of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
