'Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year. After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of Lo

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The penal colony offers convict William Thornhill a stretch of land on the Hawkesbury River. River. However, the Hawkesbury is already home to a family of Dharu

A young astronomer in colonial Australia faces tragedy on the ground in this follow-up to the award-winning The Secret River—“A triumph. Read it at once”