The Girl from Botany Bay Author: Carolly Erickson Genre: Nonfiction, History, Biography Publisher: Trade Paper Books Book Release Date: 2008 Pages: 252 Source: Personal Collection Synopsis: On a moonless night in the early 1790s, prisoner Mary Bryant, her husband William, her two small children, and seven other convicts stole a twenty-foot longboat and slipped noiselessly out of Sydney Cove, Australia, eluding their captors. They sailed north, all the way to Indonesia, traveling some thirty-six hundred treacherous miles in ten weeks—an incredible feat of seamanship. For a time, Mary and her companions were able to convince the local Dutch colonial authorities that they were survivors of a shipwreck, but eventually the truth emerged and they found themselves back in captivity, in irons, on their way to England for execution. In time, Mary's fateful journey would win her tremendous admiration. A woman once reviled as a criminal w...
The Body on the Beach (Jane Austen Investigations #4) Author: Laura Martin Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery and Suspense Publisher: Sapere Books Book Release Date: 2023 Pages: 239 Source: Borrowed Synopsis: The Austen sisters find themselves embroiled in another murder case! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Elizabeth Bailey and Ashley Gardner. Have a series of murders been covered up…? 1798, Dorset, England Jane Austen is on holiday with her parents and her sister, enjoying time at the seaside in Lyme Regis. But one morning, while out on an early stroll, her peace is shattered. There is someone lying at the bottom of the cliffs. After rousing her father and sister, she hurries along the beach to find a young woman, dead. ...