Book review: Ashton's Hotel

Updated June 28 2018 - 1:24pm, first published September 18 2017 - 12:00am
Ashton's Hotel by Rhondda Harris.
Ashton's Hotel by Rhondda Harris.

SOUTH Australia was meant to be the perfect colony: free settlers, no crime and no mental illness. But plans go awry and within three years plans for a permanent gaol were well established along with a governor to oversee it: William Baker Ashton.

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