A review by madanburg
A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia by Thomas Keneally

2.0

Eh. It was fine. I'm just not a big nonfiction gal, but needed something for a reading group and this was narrated by Simon Vance, so if nothing else I can just listen to him and it's very soothing and fine. The personalities involved didn't totally grab me, so it was "here's a ship that arrived and everyone was starving! here's another ship and they're starving and also sick! here comes a supply ship - ha ha, no meat, only peas, keep starving!" with a variety of unappealing interactions with the native population thrown in.