From The Girl Who Came Back , by Kerry Wilkinson: "What sort of person wants their own daughter to give away a grandchild? How is that a thing? It's easy to abdicate responsibility by saying it's a generational thing, that isn't an excuse, not when other...

At the moment I'm reading the true story of the Lady Julian, a ship commissioned to transport female convicts to Botany Bay from eighteenth century Britain. The Floating Brothel by Sian Rees tells of the rough justice meted out to women when one hundred...