The Last Convict

by Anthony Hill

'It's a good story, Samuel. You're a piece of living history.' Oxford 1863: Young Samuel Speed sets a barley stack alight in the hope it will earn him a bed in prison for the night. He wants nothing more than a morsel of food in his belly and a warm place to sleep off the streets. What he receives is a sentence of seven years' servitude, to be served half a world away in the penal colony of Fremantle, Western Australia. When Samuel boards the transport...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 176089446X
• ISBN13: 9781760894467
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Michael Joseph Australia
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"