Journey back to the unforgiving 1800s, where two lives torn from their roots collide in an extraordinary tale of courage, resilience, and defiance. Robert Bright from Cambridge, and Mary Anne Goulden, a fiesty soul from the gritty streets of London's east end, found themselves ripped away from family and thrust onto a treacherous voyage aboard prison ships bound for a distant world.As they face the iron grip of a colonial Governor's oppressive regime, the question looms: can they e...

2023 Readers Choice Book Awards FinalistThe case of the emigrant niece is a captivating historical fiction novel by David Cairns, set in the 1800s and spanning Australia, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and the Scottish Highlands. Written in the first – person point of view, from the perspective of Major Findo Gask, the book follows his journey as he builds a new life for himself in Melbourne and partners with his friend, Errol Rait, in a fraud investigation.The novel is a work...

A true story. In 1853, Australia was rocked by the robbery of £6,000 of gold from an escorted shipment on a country road heading from the McIvor gold fields to Melbourne, Within days, 400 men were searching the bush for the audacious bushrangers who numbered between 6 and 15 depending on who was telling the story. Despite aboriginal trackers and extensive searches, they could not be found. The full weight of the constabulary was thrown behind the case and a round up of possible suspects be...

How would you respond if your death sentence was commuted to life on an island prison half a world away?Robert Bright and Mary Ann Goulding are beginning life on the island prison of Van Diemen's Land, serving their sentences under the strict control of a martinet Governor. Two real people caught up in the hopelessness of an unequal, class-ridden society who fight back as the new nation of Australia is forged.The Helots' Tale, Redemption – is part II of a deeply-researched ...

Step back in time to the exhilarating days of the 1863 Gold Rush in Melbourne and the bustling northern gold towns like Ballarat and Bendigo in "The Case of the Wandering Corpse." Get ready for a gripping journey into the heart of this historical mystery, where the past meets intrigue, and two compelling characters, Findo Gask and Erroll Rait, are your guides.The year is 1863, and Melbourne is a hotbed of opportunity and danger. The promise of gold lures prospectors from far and wide, turn...

Is it really possible that you have stumbled across a secret lost for centuries? A secret that that could change the world order?From the bustling gold rush and the streets of Melbourne in 1864 to the ancient city of Edinburgh in Scotland, three friends flee from a secret society out for revenge, only to find themselves at the centre of a swirling modern-day Jacobite plot and a 'stop at nothing' British Secret Service.Major Findo Gask and his Sherlockian friend, Errol Rait,...

Precarity is a concern that affects researchers in academia across the world. Despite being experienced and highly qualified, many endure working conditions more traditionally associated with people lacking skills and credentials. This book explores this perverse situation, focusing on Portugal, with a view to explaining how precarity starts and then continues for the entire duration of a research career.Using 100 interviews conducted with researchers from across Portugal in 2022-2...

This book looks at the changes that have taken place in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, following the lockdown of societies and imposition of border controls in an attempt to limit the spread of the virus.Using empirical evidence from Portugal, a geopolitically important point of intersection within Europe and between Global South and Global North, the book examines consequences of the apparent end of mobility expansionism, developing a refreshing theoretical concept of ‘immobil...

This handbook provides an overview of developments in the youth mobility and migration research field, with specific emphasis on movement for education, work and training purposes, encompassing exchanges sponsored by institutions, governments and international agencies, and free movement. The collection features over 30 theoretically and empirically-based discussions of the meaning and key aspects of various forms of mobility as practiced in contemporary societies, and concludes with an ex...

This handbook provides an overview of developments in the youth mobility and migration research field, with specific emphasis on movement for education, work and training purposes, encompassing exchanges sponsored by institutions, governments and international agencies, and free movement.The collection features over 30 theoretically and empirically-based discussions of the meaning and key aspects of various forms of mobility as practiced in contemporary societies, and concludes wit...

Based on exploratory research with students and graduates conducted in Armenia and its diaspora during summer 2018, Cairns and Sargsyan provide insight into some of the challenges involved in moving abroad, focusing on three different destinations: Russia, the United States and the European Union. Additionally, Student and Graduate Mobility in Armenia considers issues that have an impact on life chances for highly qualified young people who wish to remain in Armenia, including per...

No artist's achievement connects more directly with early experience than that of Berlioz. David Cairns draws on a wealth of family papers to recreate in authentic and intimate detail the provincial milieu of Berlioz's boyhood, showing how the son of a village doctor was already transforming himself into the composer of the Fantastic Symphony. Berlioz's desperate attempts to win his father's approval for his vocation, his struggles to establish himself on the Parisian musical scen...