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Sarah's Story
Added: Nov 12, 2025
 
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A convict's tale of strength and resilience for younger readers.

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The Convict Ships 1787-1868
Added: Dec 8, 2025
 
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Charles Bateson reconstructs the voyages of the ships transporting convicts to Australia and also the administrative system under which the ships were selected, manned, provisioned and despatched with their miserable human freight to face a 13,000 mile voyage over tempestuous and largely uncharted seas.

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Fair Dinkum Histories - Grim Crims and Convicts 1788-1820
 
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An Australian history book for children... It was the craziest, wildest and most daring expedition the world had ever seen.

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Female Factory Female Convicts
 
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The story of the more than 13,000 women exiled from Britain to Van Diemen's Land as transported convicts.

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Flash Jim
 
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The story of James Hardy Vaux, convict and writer of Australia's first dictionary. If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly' or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a an Australian colonial convict of old.

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Floating Prisons - Irish Convict Hulks and Voyages to New South Wales 1823-1837
 
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Looking deeply into Ireland's penal administration, divided society, and the convict voyages, Anne McMahon draws conclusions that will change many assumptions about Australia, Ireland and the British Empire.

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For Better or Worse
 
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For Better or Worse is a book describing 88 convict lives shaped by transportation to Van Diemen's Land, NSW or Western Australia, with facial images created using computer technology in the early 2000s.

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For the Term of His Natural Life - Popular Penguin
 
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The orange Popular Penguin edition of Marcus Clarke's historical convict novel, For the Term of His Natural Life.

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From the Edges of Empire - Convict Women from Beyond the British Isles
 
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Remarkable stories of convict women transported to Australia who were born or tried outside the British Isles.

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From the Proteus to Prosperity
 
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In the steps of John Walduck (1809-1886); a convict family history.

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Gaolbird - the true story of William Swallow Convict & Pirate
 
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This children's picture story book tells the outrageous and unbelievable true story of a convict pirate named Swallow from Simon Barnard, the 2015 CBCA winner of A-Z Convicts in Van Diemen's Land.

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Governor Arthur's Convict System
 
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A history of Governor Arthur's convict system in Van Diemen's Land 1824-36.

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