Morgan's Run (Paperback)

from ElizabethCromb

Reread during Covid -19 lockdown 20/8/20. Still a great read. There is so much historical minutia woven into the tale. It must have taken so long to research it all. Pity she never got to write the sequal.

from ElizabethCromb

Great historical interest story with so much historical fact woven into very believable characters and story lines.

from Embejo

Loved this book. It's the story of a man Richard Morgan who is falsely accused of a crime in and found himself transported to Botany Bay (Australia's first penal colony) in 1788 on the First Fleet. It is a great tale which spans the years from 1775 until 1793 and depicts life for a convict in Bot...

from suztales

Morgan's Run is a very long book, filled with the history of England's settlement of Australia. Although I've known it was basically a settlement of convicts-people found guilty of both serious and minor crimes-I really knew very little of the trials and hardships of those sentenced to "transport...

from LynndaEll

As an emerging writer, deep into learning the skills of the craft, I read a lot of professionals' advice. Most experts suggest that a novel be developed with a plot full of action. Not surprisingly, then, I find that most books - regardless of genre - follow this model. Not so with Colleen McCull...