Batavia

''... a book that can''t be put down.'' Toowoomba Chronicle

''[FitzSimons] knows how to make words race like eager sled dogs on their homeward run.'' Newcastle Herald

The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world''s first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mutiny, ship-wreck, love, lust, ...