The Chancer's Corps

<p>New South Wales 1804.The Chancer's Corps tells the story of the Rum Rebellion the only military coup in </p><p>Australia's history. When William Bligh best known for the mutiny on the Bounty arrives in Sydney to </p><p>become Governor in the early 1800s he intends to break the New South Wales Corps soldiers more notorious for corruption than for any military exploits. </p><p>The chancer's of the Corps have already taken on Irish rebels and Aboriginal warriors and endured flood and the threat of famine. </p><p>Now they will confront Bligh and his cronies; neither side will give in and soon neither side can afford to lose with politics played out at the point of a gun. </p><p>The debut novel by James Page reminds the reader that our 'cult of personality' ' mutiny on the Bounty is </p><p>nothing new and the lessons of yesterday still resonate today.</p>