Meg Keneally

The Ink Stain by Meg Keneally and Tom Keneally takes readers on a gripping journey as Monsarrat and Mrs Mulrooney are dispatched to Sydney to investigate corruption that threatens the very core of the colony's fundamental rights, including freedom of speech, potentially implicating the governor's office. Henry Hallward, the determined editor of the Sydney Chronicle, is no stranger to imprisonment...

Jenny Trelawney is no ordinary thief. Forced by poverty to live in the forest, she becomes a successful highwaywoman—until her luck runs out. Transported to Britain's furthest colony, Jenny must tackle new challenges and growing responsibilities. And when famine hits the new colony, Jenny becomes convinced that those she most cares about will not survive. She becomes the leader in...

In the Port Macquarie penal settlement for second offenders, at the edge of the known world, gentleman convict Hugh Monsarrat hungers for freedom. Originally transported for forging documents and passing himself off as a lawyer, he is now the trusted clerk of the settlement's commandant. His position has certain advantages, such as being able to spend time in the Government...

Being the skipper of the cutter that carries all supplies and communications between Tasmania and Maria Island is a powerful position, and a deadly one. When a boatman is murdered on a remote island off Van Dieman's Land, the authorities want to blame a famous, and very inconvenient, political prisoner. But the victim's history of blackmail prompts Monsarrat to look...

It is a harsh land - yes, for you especially - but people can also rise here ... Born into poverty in eighteenth-century England, her future was predetermined. But throughout her life, Molly Thistle refused to follow the path laid out before her. Her headstrong nature, disdain for convention, and desire for freedom were always destined to determine her fate....

Not all murder victims are mourned, but the perpetrator must always be punished... For Robert Church, superintendent of the Parramatta Female Factory, the most enjoyable part of his job is access to young convict women. Inmate Grace O'Leary has made it her mission to protect the women from his nocturnal visits, and when Church is murdered with an awl thrust...

In 1820, Sarah McCaffrey, fleeing arrest for her part in a failed rebellion, thinks she has escaped when she finds herself aboard the Serpent, bound from London to the colony of New South Wales. However, when the mercurial captain's actions drive the ship into a cliff, Sarah is the sole survivor. Adopting a false identity, she becomes the right-hand woman...