Includes George Barrington; Margaret Catchpole; William Edwards; Sir Henry Browne Hayes; Joseph Holt; Jorgen Jorgensen; Alexander Loo Kaye; Major Semple Lisle; Simeon Lord; James Hardy Vaux.

During a major overhaul of British imperial policy following the Napoleonic Wars, an escaped convict reinvented himself as an improbable activist, renowned for his exposés of government misconduct and corruption in the Cape Colony and New South Wales. Charting scandals unleashed by the man known variously as Alexander Loe Kaye and William Edwards, Imperial Underworld offers a radical new account of the legal, constitutional and administrative transformations that unfolded during the British colonial order of the 1820s. In a narrative rife with daring jail breaks, infamous agents provocateurs, and allegations of sexual deviance, Professor Kirsten McKenzie argues that such colourful and salacious aspects of colonial administrations cannot be separated from the real business of political and social change. The book instead highlights the importance of taking gossip, paranoia, factional infighting and political spin seriously to show the extent to which ostensibly marginal figures and events influenced the transformation of the nineteenth-century British Empire.

No one likes being stuck indoors during stormy weather – especially not students at the School of Scallywags, and especially not on a miserable Monday morning. But when Felicity “Flick” Foulweather reveals a stormy secret to her classmates, boredom turns to curiosity in less time than it takes Hook Hand Horace to say, “Shiver me secrets, there’s a mystery to solve!” In the Scallywags’ fourth fantastic adventure, Super sleuth, Mischief McScruff must put on his detective’s hat (or his newspaper pirate hat) and get to the bottom of this whodunnit mystery before the secret gets out.

Retired from a long career at the National Library of Australia, Kepars cites and evaluates 441 references on the capital of New South Wales, the host city of the 2000 Olympic Games. He arranges them in sections on the people; guidebooks; the harbor; biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and diaries; history; flora, fauna, and geology; population, religion; society and social conditions; and other broad areas. He indexes authors and titles as well as subjects, and includes two maps. c. Book News Inc.

Examines the attitudes of convicts and ex-convicts towards the churches and clergy ; includes references to missionary work among Aboriginal people.