Tongues of Serpents: a novel of Temeraire

From the publishers:
The sixth volume in Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, which mixes stories of dragons with Napoleonic history, has just been released. Following their defence of England against Napoleon's invasion, Tongues of Serpents sees Temeraire and Laurence stripped of rank and standing and transported to the prison colony at New South Wales in distant Australia. Moreover, instead of leaving behind all the political entanglements and corruptions of the war, Laurence and Temeraire have instead sailed into a hornet's nest of fresh complications. For the colony at New South Wales has been thrown into turmoil after the overthrow of the military governor, one William Bligh — better known as Captain Bligh, late of HMS Bounty. Eager to escape this political quagmire, Laurence and Temeraire take on a mission to find a way through the forbidding Blue Mountains and into the interior of Australia. But when one of the dragon eggs is stolen from Temeraire, the surveying expedition becomes a desperate race to recover it in time — a race that leads to a shocking discovery and a dangerous new obstacle in the global war between Britain and Napoleon.