--- product_id: 67264187 title: "The Lieutenant" brand: "kate grenville" price: "£5.30" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/67264187-the-lieutenant store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # The Lieutenant **Brand:** kate grenville **Price:** £5.30 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Lieutenant by kate grenville - **How much does it cost?** £5.30 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/67264187-the-lieutenant) ## Best For - kate grenville enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted kate grenville brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![The Lieutenant - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51fxTEx2vnL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautifully written, evocative and informative *by A***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 March 2018* Beautifully written, evocative and informative book. I have read the Secret River and several other books by this author. I can't understand why I hadn't heard about her before now. I think she is a superb writer, and her themes about Australia and the Aboriginal culture are so interesting. Deeply disturbing and distressing to learn how the Aboriginals were treated by white settlers. Kate Grenville enters into the place and time with amazing insight and sensitivity. Really enjoyed reading it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Grenville has fused the stories of two lieutenants who came over with fleet and took a much closer interest than their superior officers in understanding the life *by A***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 January 2018* An enjoyable read for anyone interested in the the history of the First Fleet and the opening up of New South Wales as a penal colony. Grenville has fused the stories of two lieutenants who came over with fleet and took a much closer interest than their superior officers in understanding the life, the cutlture and the language of the aboriginals who were being displaced and either collaborated or fought back for their land. She has made good use of the original notebooks of the astronomer-cum-linguist who attempted to speak and work out the grammar and vocabulary of the local dialect, no mean feat working from scratch! An imaginative reconstruction of the early days of the colony which became Sydney and Australia, clearly focused and researched and told with her usual fluency and skill. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Disconcertingly undemanding *by R***A on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 August 2013* This is the first book I've read by Grenville and I have to admit to being underwhelmed. Set at the end of the eighteenth-century, this tells of the first British landing in Sydney with a shipload of convicts and their guards. Amongst them is Daniel Rooke, a mathematician and astronomer, and a man always awkward with his peers and compatriots. His meeting with native Australians, however, changes his life.Part of my problem with this book is the narrative mode: everything is `told' to us, little is dramatised. As a consequence, there is very little work for us to do as readers: there's no need to read between the lines, or understand unspoken feelings and/or motives, everything is laid out in an overly simplistic fashion (`And everything in his life had been leading here. He saw it as clearly as a map, the map of his life and his character'.) Everything is on the surface of this book, with no richness, subtlety or ambiguities to be excavated by the reader.I enjoyed Rooke's unravelling of the Australian language, and the way he draws grammatical comparisons with Greek and Latin, the way he understands that language maps onto the way a culture thinks and constructs itself. But to off-set this, is a bare bones of a story where the conflict of loyalty is flagged miles off and repeats an event that happens earlier in the book. The climax, too, of Rooke's story happens offstage and is barely recalled from old age about 50 years later.The cultural `message' of the book is, of course, a worthy one - but hardly an original one or one that hasn't been treated in other literary fiction. So a disconcertingly simple story narrated in an unchallenging, sometimes flat style - disappointing. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/67264187-the-lieutenant](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/67264187-the-lieutenant) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-05-03*