The Last Convict
$31.66
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2021
Summary
‘It’s a good story, Samuel. You’re a piece of living history.’
Oxford 1863- Young Samuel Speed sets a barley stack alight in the hope it will earn him a bed in prison for the night. He wants nothing more than a morsel of food in his belly and a warm place to sleep off the streets. What he receives is a sentence of seven years’ servitude, to be served half a world away in the penal colony of Fremantle, Western Australia.
When Samuel boards the transport ship Belgravia, he is st…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760894467 |
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| ISBN-10: | 176089446X |
| Author: | Anthony Hill |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 452g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 265mm x 231mm |
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About The Author
Anthony Hill
Anthony Hill is a multi-award-winning, bestselling author.
His novel Soldier Boy, about Australia’s youngest known Anzac, was winner of the 2002 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Books for Young Adults. More recently, his children’s book, Captain Cook’s Apprentice, won the 2009 NSW Premier’s Young People’s History Prize.
Soldier Boy, Young Digger, Animal Heroes and For Love as Country follow as further testimony to his remarkable ability to extensively research historical material and, from wide-ranging sources, piece together a moving and exciting story.
He is also the author of two novellas, the beautiful Shadow Dog, and the award-winning The Burnt Stick, illustrated by Mark Sofilas, as well as the picture book, Lucy’s Cat and the Rainbow Birds, illustrated by Jane Tanner.
Anthony lives in Canberra with his wife, Gillian. Their daughter, son-in-law and grand-daughter, Emily, live in Melbourne.
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