The Commonwealth Of ThievesA brilliant recreation of the first four years of white settlement in Australia by Booker Prize winning author Tom Keneally. A brilliant recreation of the first four years of white settlement in Australia by Booker Prize winning author Tom Keneally. In 1787, Britain banished its unwanted citizens uneducated petty thieves, streetwalkers, orphan chimneysweeps and dashing highwaymen to the fringes of the known world. So remote was Botany Bay the