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Colleen McCullough
The bestselling Australian novel of all time, Thorn Birds is the sweeping saga of three generations of the Cleary family.
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Beautiful….Compelling entertainment. –New York Times A heart-rending epic…truly marvelous. –Chicago TribuneOne of the most beloved novels of all time, The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough’s sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic…
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The fifth book in the epic Masters of Rome series. Gaul. Even Pompey the Great, Caesar’s former ally. But all have underestimated Caesar. For rome is his destiny - a…
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Tim McGarry
Tim is a young labourer with a disability. Mary is a successful mid-50s business executive. What begins as a chance meeting between them soon develops into a life-changing relationship for…
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Mary J. Demarr
Although best known for The Thorn Birds, her blockbuster family saga set in her native Australia, Colleen McCullough is a versatile novelist who has written in a variety of genres.
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A love story and a crime classic from master storyteller Colleen McCullough.
From the author of THE THORN BIRDS, one of the biggest - selling books of all time, comes this epic saga of love, betrayal, ambition and redemption in 1920s Australia…
The beloved author of the international bestseller The Thorn Birds pens an unforgettable thriller, set in a neurological institute where anyone among the staff could be a twisted serial killer…
Following the disappearance of his only son and the death of his beloved wife, Richard Morgan is falsely imprisoned and exiled to the penal colonies of eighteenth-century Australia. His life…
Potent poisons and deadly rivalries in this glamorous thriller.
In her riveting sequel to On, Off, featuring Carmine Delmonico, the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds proves once again that she is a master of suspense.
At the Hug, a research centre for the neurosciences, parts of a body are discovered. Soon, Lieutenant Carmine Delmonico learns of a string of horrifying disappearances throughout Connecticut. Then another…
The bestselling author of THE THORN BIRDS returns with a novel of laughter, passion and more than a little magic …
The captivating new novel from the international bestselling author of ‘The Thorn Birds’.
An aging, ailing Gaius Marius, heralded conqueror of Germany and Numidia, longs for that which was prophesied many years before: an unprecedented seventh consulship of Rome. It is a prize…
In a time of cataclysmic upheaval, a bold new generation of Romans vied for greatness amid the disintegrating remnants of their beloved Republic. But there was one who towered above…
From Colleen McCullough, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Thorn Birds, comes an epic and remarkable saga of great events, intrigues and personages; the story of Gaiua…
Returning to the magnificent setting of Australia’s open frontiers, the #1 New York Times bestselling author weaves her most powerful novel since The Thorn Birds –a new saga of an…
In Missalonghi, on Missy Wright’s family’s pitifully small homestead in Australia’s Blue Mountains, It’s a brand new century–the twentieth–a time for new thoughts and bold new actions. And Missy is…
In this breathtaking follow-up to The October Horse, McCullough turns her attention to the legendary romance of Antony and Cleopatra. The grandeur of ancient Rome comes to life as a…
The bestselling author of The Thorn Birds breathes new life into the characters of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Jane and Elizabeth’s younger, bookish sister Mary is still too willful…
A Captain Carmine Delmonico mystery from the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds.
Originally published: Sydney: HarperCollins, 2013.
Sydney’s Kings Cross, 1960: Harriet Purcell leaves her conventional, respectable Bronte home and moves into a rooming house owned by Mrs Delvecchio Schwartz. There Harriet finds a life she relishes.
The epic story of two of the world’s most famous lovers - and the forces of politics, intrigue and ambition that shaped them.
The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet is both a page-turning look at the ongoing lives of the Bennet sisters, and a sparkling romance that shows it is never too late…
For Captain Carmine Delmonico, it seems to be a case with no clues. And it comes as the Holloman Police Department is troubled: a lieutenant is out of his depth…
A Captain Carmine Delmonico mystery from the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds
Content with her solitary world until she meets childlike outcast Tim, Mary Horton is touched by his innocence and finds her respectable but lonely existence changed forever.
The story of the men and women who came together to found the community which still flourishes today on Norfolk Island. Based on the history of the author’s husband’s family.
The fourth of Colleen McCullough’s novels set in Ancient Rome. It begins with Julius Caesar’s return to Rome in 68BC, prepared to dominate a new battlefield - the Roman Forum…
In Rome, 110BC, upstart military genius Gaius Marius marries the daughter of aristocrat Gaius Julius. Three years later her wayward sister marries the attractive, ambitious but unsuitable Lucius Cornelius Sulla…
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This is the third in McCullough’s six-novel series on Ancient Rome. Sulla returns from exile and the 22-year-old Pompey names himself Magnus the Great . The young Julius Caesar moves…
In the rugged Australian Outback, The Thorn Birds follows three generations of the extraordinary Cleary family through joy and sadness, bitter defeat and magnificent triumph–driven by their dreams, sustained by…
Carmine and his team of detectives must navigate the competitive world of academic publishing, fraught with politics and prestige. The stakes are high: an amazing art collection, a large inheritance…
Passion, politics, love and death combine in a novel of the legendary love triangle between the three leaders of the Roman era: Cleopatra, Mark Antony and Octavian, from the bestselling…
The sixth book in the epic Masters of Rome series Julius Caesar is in the prime of his life and at the height of his powers. But Caesar is a…
Spanning fifty years, from the 1860s through to the turn of the century, this work tells the story of Alexander Kinross, who flees from a childhood of poverty in Scotland…
Following THE FIRST MAN IN ROME, this is the second novel in a saga of the Roman Republic. Gaius Marius, the general who saved Rome from barbarian invasion, has fallen…
Missy Wright lives with her widowed mother and crippled aunt in genteel poverty, victim to the family’s rule of inheritance: the men take it all. It seems Missy’s life is…
With astounding narrative power, Colleen Mccullough–author of the internationally acclaimed #1 bestseller The Thorn Birds –sweeps the reader into the whirlpool of pageantry, passion, splendor, chaos and earth-shattering upheaval that…
The tale of the Trojan War brilliantly retold by the bestselling author of THE THORN BIRDS.
Now in paperback–the sweeping epic of ancient Rome from the #1 bestselling author of The Thorn Birds that brings to life Gaius Julius Caesar during the last days of the…
In this gripping follow-up to Too Many Murders, McCullough ( The Thorn Birds ) once again pits Captain Carmine Delmonico against a dangerous villain.
Ms Colleen McCullough
Before she died in 2015, Colleen McCullough finished her last book - not a novel, but this short, thought-provoking book on water resources and how we use them, along with…
The bestselling author of The Thorn Birds brings us a new novel of laughter, passion and more than a little magic In this exhilarating new novel, Colleen McCullough takes us…
