Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley, a Manx smuggler.  The Reverend Geoffrey Wilson, a country parson.  Jack Harp, an escaped convict.  Peevay, a mixed-race aborigine. Dr Thomas Potter, a race-supremacy theorist.  Timothy Renshaw, a reluctant botanist.  These are just some of the colourful characters that narrate this extraordinary book. Spanning a period of fifty years, from … More English Passengers by Matthew Kneale