The Commonwealth Of ThievesA brilliant recreation of the first four years of white settlement in Australia by Booker Prize winning author Tom Keneally. In 1787, Britain banished its unwanted citizensuneducated petty thieves, streetwalkers, orphan chimney sweeps, and dashing highwaymento the fringes of the known world. So remote was Botany Bay, the destination to which the overcrowded, disease ridden convict ships were bound, that only one European expedition had ever before