In 1980 Keneally walked into a shop in Beverly Hills owned by Polish Jew Leopold Pfefferberg Page to buy a new briefcase. For the next few years his life was taken over by this charismatic and driven man, known as Poldek, and the story of his saviour, the ambiguous hero Oskar Schindler. Inspired by Poldek's vision, Keneally's 1982 novel, Schindler's Ark, won the Booker Prize, and ultimately became the Oscar-award winning film Schindler's List...