by NRB | 3 Jun 2019 | Giveaways |
This week week our giveaway features two remarkable convict women: Meg Keneally’s new novel Fled, based on the life of Mary Bryant, and Jessica North’s biography Esther, about the First Fleet girl who became First Lady of the colony. To go in...
by NRB | 4 Apr 2019 | Non-fiction |
This biography recounts how Esther went from being convicted in London’s Old Bailey and transported to Botany Bay with the First Fleet, to becoming First Lady of the colony. Do not be misled, as I was, by the cover of this book, which shows a young...
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