Originally released under one of her many pen names, William Stuart Long, The Australians is a series about the immigration to Australia from England in the late 1700’s written by Vivian Stuart. The story primarily focuses on the convicts who are sentenced by the government to leave their home country and settle in Australia. The series is written as historical fiction with a ton of research going into each book about the immigration.
The series is soon to be released in German, and we are currently working on the English and Danish versions too.
The Australians #1: The Exiles
They came from England – thieves, felons, murderers, justly and unjustly accused – human cargo destined to hack a life from the harsh Australian wilderness. Packed into the teemed holds of His Majesty’s ships. They sailed treacherous seas to the icy desolation of Antarctica, to the South Cape of Tasmania, to Captain Cook’s anchorage in Botany Bay.
It was a cruel, violent fate for fifteen-year-old Jenny Taggart. Falsely accused of theft, she was torn from her loved ones, a beautiful child among hardened convicts, an innocent in the craft of survival.