The Fatal Shore

<p><b>An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia</b><br><br>In 1787 the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.<br><br>Documenting the brutal transportation of men women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia <i>The Fatal Shore </i>is the definitive masterfully written narrative that has given its true history to Australia.<br><br><b>'A unique phantasmagoria of crime and punishment which combines the shadowy terrors of Goya with the tumescent life of Dickens' <i>Times</i></b></p>