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South of Darkness

Thirteen-year-old Barnaby Fletch is a bag-and-bones orphan in London in the late 1700s.

Barnaby lives on his wits and ill-gotten gains, on streets seething with the press of the throng and shadowed by sinister figures. Life is a precarious business.

When he hears of a paradise on the other side of the world — a place called Botany Bay — he decides to commit a crime and get himself transported to a new life, a better life.

To succeed, he must survive the trials of Newgate Prison, the stinking hull of a prison ship and the unknown terrors of a journey across the world.

And Botany Bay is far from the paradise Barnaby has imagined. When his past and present suddenly collide, he is soon fleeing for his life — once again.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 376
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781743531563
  • Settings
  • London, England, Botany Bay, Sydney
  • Genres
  • historical, fiction, australia, audiobook, adult, adventure
  • Release date
  • 2014