The Fatal Shore

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<p><b>An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia</b></p><p>In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.</p><p>Documenting the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia,<i>The Fatal Shore</i>is the definitive, masterfully written narrative that has given its true history to Australia.</p><p><b>'A unique phantasmagoria of crime and punishment, which combines the shadowy terrors of Goya with the tumescent life of Dickens'<i>Times</i></b></p>

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Robert Hughes, art critic of<i>Time</i>magazine and twice winner of the American College Art Association's F. J. Mather Award for distinguished criticism, is author of<i>The Shock of the New</i>, and of<i>Heaven and Hell in Western Art</i>, both written before the present work. He is also author of the acclaimed<i>Nothing if Not Critical</i>, "criticism at its most intelligent and impressive, trenchant, lucid, elegantly written" in the words of William Boyd; a work on Frank Auerbach;<i>Barcelona</i>, and<i>Culture of Complaint</i>, essays on the fraying of America, described in the<i>Observer</i>as " the most bracing of critical broadsides against new anti-intellectual tyrannies". Robert Hughes died in August 2012.

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