Moll Walbee leaves behind her reputation as a pickpocket in the slums of Paris and becomes a highwayman. Eventually arrested and transported, she continues her adventurous life on board ship and on arrival in Australia.
Anglo-Welsh writer born to an army family in what was then Ceylon.
After retiring from the army he adopted Wales as home and began to write of the country and its history. His first, and best-known novel, the Rape of the Fair Country (first in the Mortymer Trilogy) was a million selling best-seller in its day.