5 novels on convict history (to read synopses, click icons)

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Gurrewa… (finalist in the quest for the world’s best historical eBook of 2002) tells the brutal shame of a new nation’s founding, the plight of convicts, and of aborigines facing the terrible realisation that their heritage is crumbling.

Author Kev Richardson has caught the flavor and pure awfulness of the time about which he writes. His characters are well drawn and believable. Without hesitation I recommend this story to anyone who likes historical or mainstream tales.

Anne K. Edwards, eBook Reviews Weekly

   

ADAM-Son of Gurrewa (A tale of discovery in New South Wales)


FIVE-STAR AWARD
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Although our hero, Adam Ashby is Kev Richardson’s fictionalized convict-birthed character born to an unwed couple, a ‘bolted’ convict and his ‘colony wife’, this story nonetheless represents the real life history of New South Wales’ struggles to become more than just an overflow prison for England’s criminals. For those of you who miss the history in your Historical reads, you’ll not be disappointed in this factional account of Australian history 1790–1820s.

Conger Book Reviews, USA

 

   

Letitia Munro (A tale of Australia’s first white settlement)

Richardson shows poignantly where the Australian ‘free spirit’ and attitudes to authority stem from. As a glimpse into the times of just over 200 years ago, it is a fine historical record. I enjoyed this work immensely; it should be compulsory reading for all, especially Australians.

                                                         Lang Reid, “Chiang Mai Mail” and “Pattaya Mail

5 Star! Kev Richardson, a 6th generation descendant First Fleeter, continues his authentic historical account about the thousands upon thousands of convicts imprisoned on New South Wales—a land that not even the king himself knew had too little fresh water to drink, or sufficient tillable soil to support the hoards of convicts he sent. Letitia never realized when sentenced for stealing a partial bolt of cloth, that she would become a memorable part of Australian history.

It’s like no history I’ve ever read. The voice in this work carries the reader right into the trying times of convict life—I found this book an informative account, written the way I like to read history. Richardson makes you live the part of the suffering and struggles of the times. I highly recommend it.

JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews, USA

   

To Plough Van Diemen’s Land (Australia’s founding convicts spawn a new ethos, a new culture)

5 Star! Kev Richardson has a way of introducing the reader to each of Letitia Munro’s family, making the history in the late 1700’s, and early 1800’s come alive.

The Van Diemen’s Land name was changed in an effort to hide the social guilt of inhumane suffering, starvation, deliberate brutalities, and unpardonable cruelties dealt against prisoners whose misdeeds were often only crimes of ‘desperation in surviving hard times’. It was such beginnings that established the convicts’ loyal code against their captors, formulating the heritage of ‘bonded relationships’ of today’s Australians.

I highly recommend Kev Richardson’s historical tales. He brings history to life.

JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews USA

   

The Terrible Truths (Changing social attitudes haunt the children of Australia’s convict founders)

5 Star! I must agree with Australian historian Kev Richardson, a proud sixth generation ‘First Fleeter’, that denying the terrible truths of convictism and its atrocities, only made today’s Australians stronger for knowing how their forebears clung together to cope with intolerance, bigotry, and hypocrisy of the times. I found reading about the true history of the 1800’s in Australia, an eye-opener. Here is a modern day author bravely disclosing the terrible truths concealed behind the recorded history of the ancestors transported into a living hell, and how they really lived and loved. I highly recommend this series to all history lovers. This book will open your eyes to the shocking truths behind Australia’s hidden past.

JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews USA



The Brogan series…

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Brogan was born in the drifting sands of corner-country on Australia's desert edge. His story exemplifies the life, trials and tribulations of typical early Australians in the unforgiving outback.

Brogan’—it makes me want to go explore the channel corner-country. What a fascinating part of Australian history!

Karen Babcock ( Managing Editor)

 
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Brogan's Bust continues the adventures of the charismatic Brogan, flying charter in the backstabbing world of gun-running, drug-smuggling intrigue in the Amazonian jungles.

5-Star Award! BROGAN’S BUST by Kev Richardson is a well crafted, high testosterone, tale of corrupt international trafficking in gems, guns and drugs. In fact, I couldn’t help but wonder how this author knew so much detailed information about the strong-armed men of South America? It all sounds so realistic, as though he’s been there, done that… and survived

JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews USA

   

Brogan's Bella. Brogan and Bella, en-route from Peru to Australia, are highjacked over the Pacific. Their planned three-week journey takes a fear-filled year.

Brogan is at it again. In Brogan’s Bella by Kev Richardson, Brogan and his aristocratic lady friend, La Dama Isabella Maldonado, are kidnapped in mid-flight to Australia, and find themselves doing whatever they must to survive. I promise you, this book is so full of high adventure and tension it will keep you turning pages… even if you know absolutely nothing about the political situation between Vietnam and France during the 1940’s

JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews USA

   
 Brogan Abroad

Brogan Abroad – Smuggling sex-flesh here—caught up in revolution there!

5 Star! This may not be the same ‘Brogan’ as Kev Richardson portrayed in his other Brogan stories, but he nonetheless fits the same mold of a devil-may-care adventurer. At first I thought if this Brogan didn’t have ‘bad luck’ he wouldn’t have any luck at all…but then realized that if it hadn’t been for his luck he surely would have been robbed of more than just his camera in Africa, gotten nailed as a smuggler of exotic women, or had his throat slashed in a darkened alley. I challenge anyone to put this book down once they start reading. Double dare you!

JoEllen– Conger Book Reviews (USA)


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