ADAM-Son of Gurrewa

A tale of discovery in New South Wales   
FIVE-STAR AWARD!
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

To Plough Van Diemen’s Land
Australia’s founding convicts spawn a new ethos, a new culture
Britain’s convicts serve out their sentences in an ancient land, wresting it from Aborigines that it be turned over to agriculture and sheep-grazing. The reader spies on Letitia’s children, sharing experiences, loves and heartbreaks as they unwittingly forge a new ethos. Mostly illiterate and lacking skills, some fail at farming while others succeed, unaware of the social taboos being woven into the fabric of the nation’s spawning culture.

The Terrible Truths
Changing social attitudes haunt the children of Australia’s convict founders
Third in the trio of the Letitia Munro family, her descendants live through the period of convictism being realized a mistake, that it be abandoned, that knowledge of the convict past should be swept under carpets, children denied even the truth of their forebears’ sufferings. When the sins of fathers become beholden on them as society values change, parents agonise over preparing the next generation to cope. Must they deny their children their very heritage?