The Fatal Shore

In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia...An epic description of 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. The Fatal Shore is the prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia.

This book is ranked number 32 in the Global Reads list

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Munira Mirza
“An epic history of a fascinating century. It transformed the way Australians see themselves. I read it all the way through my plane journey to Sydney and was gripped.”