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Dit is het aangrijpende, imposante verhaal van een eigenaardige familie: de Claery's. Het verhaal begint rond 1900, wanneer Paddy Cleary met zijn vrouw Fiona en hun zeven kinderen naar Drogheda, een groot Australisch landgoed, verhuist. Daar leert hun dochter, de ontembare Meggie haar grote liefde kennen: de knappe en ambitieuze priester Ralph de Bricassart. Maar kan deze liefde standhouden of blijkt het Vaticaan deze liefde onmogelijk te maken...

Na uitgehuwelijkt te zijn aan een verre neef bouwt een jonge vrouw eind 19e eeuw een nieuw leven op in Australië.

Honour Langtry is verpleegster in een militair hospitaal op een eiland in de Stille Oceaan aan het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Ze heeft de leiding over Afdeling X, de afdeling voor geesteszieken, ofwel de soldaten met 'tropenkolder'. De weinige patiënten die er nog zijn dragen Honour op handen en beschouwen haar, elk op hun eigen manier, als hun bezit. Sergeant Michael Wilson - een nieuwkomer - wordt op Afdeling X dan ook niet bepaald warm verwelkomd. Maar de zorgzame en plichtsgetrouwe Honour vat een bijzondere belangstelling voor hem op. Ze ziet niet wat voor een vernietigende invloed dit heeft op de andere mannen. Tenslotte zijn ze allemaal te lang verstoken geweest van vrouwen... Zonder het te willen wordt Michael de oorzaak van jaloezie, hartstocht, liefde en intriges.

With the possible exception of the crucifixion of Christ no moment of history is more universally familiar and more often depicted than the assassination of Julius Caesar. Caesar is in the prime of his life and the height of his powers as the novel opens. A man of contradictions, Caesar is happily married yet at the same time the lover of the enigmatic and subtle Egyptian ruler, Cleopatra. He is at once a great general who commands the instinctive loyalty of Rome's legions, and a man who wishes to bring to an end Rome's endless civil and external wars, a man not only conscious of his own power, and contemptuous of lesser men, but respectful of the republic, and determined not to be worshipped as a living god or crowned as an emperor, a man whose very greatness attracts envy and jealousy to a dangerous degree. With her extraordinary knowledge of Roman history, Colleen McCullough brings Caesar to life as nobody has ever done before, and surrounds him with an enormous and vivid cast of historical characters, portrayed here not as literary figures, but as real, living people, trying to control and master enormous political events and survive.

The "New York Times" bestselling author brilliantly reconstructs the mighty republic that once ruled the ancient world and celebrates the genius, passion, ruthlessness, and magnificence of the noblest Roman of all: Gaius Julius Caesar.

In the midst of a disintegrating Republic, the dictator of ancient Rome, Sulla, retires, the brutally ambitious Pompey appoints himself Magnus, and a young Caesar emerges as a towering figure to his people, with his wife, Cimilla, by his side. Reprint.

"Throughout the Western world, great kingdoms have fallen and despots lay crushed beneath the heels of Rome's advancing legions. But now internal rebellion threatens the stability of the mighty Republic. An aging, ailing Gaius Marius, heralded conqueror of Germany and Munidia, longs for that which was prophesied many years before: an unprecedented seventh consulship of Rome. It is a prize to be won only through treachery and with blood, pitting Marius against a new generation of assassins, power-seekers, and Senate intriguers - and setting him at odds with the ambitious, tormented Lucius Cornelius Sulla, once Marius's most trusted right-hand man, now his most dangerous rival"--Provided by publisher

New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough re-creates an extraordinary epoch before the mighty Republic belonged to Julius Caesar—when Rome's noblewomen were his greatest conquest. His victories were legend—in battle and bedchamber alike. Love was a political weapon he wielded cunningly and ruthlessly in his private war against enemies in the forum. Genius, general, patrician, Gaius Julius Caesar was history. His wives bought him influence. He sacrificed his beloved daughter on the altar of ambition. He burned for the cold-hearted mistress he could never dare trust. Caesar's women all knew—and feared—his power. He adored them, used them, destroyed them on his irresistible rise to prominence. And one of them would seal his fate.

Rome 110 BC. Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, men of vision, men fated to lay the foundations of the most awesome empire ever known and to play out a mighty struggle for power and glory - the ambition of both men: to become First Man in Rome...

Passion, politics, love and death combine in a novel of the legendary love triangle between the three leaders of Rome: Cleopatra, Mark Antony and Octavian.

Innocence is no protection… In Holloman, Connecticut, someone is preying on the innocent. At a prestigious research centre fondly known by its staff as the 'Hug', parts of a mutilated body are found. Lieutenant Carmine Delmonico of the Holloman Police learns that a string of horrifying murders – each with the same modus operandi as the one at the Hug – have been commited throughout the state. When another body is found, the medical staff become prime suspects. With the powers that be in turmoil and every member of staff hiding something, Delmonico must delve into the lives of each and every Hug employee. This is the case of his career and he is determined to solve it. But how, when he is hunting a monster who leaves no clues and is always two steps ahead?

The tragic and terrible drama of the war between Greeks and Trojans, the long siege of Troy and the impact of one woman's beauty on the fate of two nations, is played out again in this dazzling novel based on Homer's ILIAD. Meet enchanting Helen, who we first encounter as a spoiled teenager and whose passion for the handsome, reckless Paris leads to the betrayal of her husband, King Menelaus and the fall of the House of Troy. Powerful King Agamemnon with his terrifyingly ambitious wife Klytemnestra and his soothsaying mistress Kassandra. Odysseus, doomed to wander the Aegean for twenty long years; brave Achilles, who is haunted by the mad shade of his mother; the heroes Hektor and Ajax and many more.

DAILY MAIL 'One of the biggest-selling, most widely read books in the history of fiction'

Amid brutal conditions that paralleled those of slavery, the criminal, the unwanted and unloved of English society were sent to a place no European but the legendary Captain Cook had ever seen. This is a thoroughly researched historical saga, rich in romance and drama, set in Australia.

I wouldn′t walk on coals of fire for any man, but Flo? She′s my angel puss. My child. It′s 1960, and twenty-one-year-old Harriet ignores her father′s warning that ′only fools, Bohemians and tarts live at Kings Cross′ and moves into Mrs Delvecchio Schwartz′s rooming house. There she learns about men, love, and tarot cards. But it is mute four-year-old Flo who captures Harriet′s heart, and who teaches her that protecting those you care for most can be hardest of all. Angel Puss vividly evokes the dynamism and passions of a Kings Cross that has gone. It is also the story of women′s love for children, and the sacrifices a woman will make to protect and nurture a beloved child.

Tomorrow's America is a cold & ravaged place, a nation devastated by despair & enduring winter. In a small New England city, senior government official Dr Judith Carriol finds the man she has been seeking--a deliverer of hope in a hopeless time who can revive the dreams of a shattered people, a magnetic, compassionate idealist whom Judith can mold, manipulate & carry to undreamed-of heights, a healer who must ultimately face damnation thru the destructive power of love.

Colleen McCullough retells the tragic and terrible drama of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans and the impact of one woman's beauty on the fate of two nations. This novel is a fictional account of Homer's Iliad

Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0380711966 here.Mary Horton is content with her comfortable, solitary existence... until she meets Tim. A beautiful young man with the mind of a child - a gentle outcast in a cruel, unbending world - he illuminates the darkness of Mary's days with his boyish innocence. And he will shatter the lonely, middle-aged spinster's respectable, ordered life with a forbidden promise of a very special love.

Sometimes fairy tales can come true-even for plain,shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicia, nor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to a quiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifully small homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But It's a brand new century-the twentieth-a time for new thoughts and bold, new actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of Byron wagging. Because she has just set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted and unsuspecting stranger ... who just might be Prince-Charming in disguise.

Jim and Millie Hunter have it all: good looks, brilliant minds, and a meteoric rise to fame in scientific world. But others in their academic circle have got the knives out, jealous of their success. So when a double murder is perpetrated, using poison stolen from Millie's research lab, the couple face some very serious accusations.

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.

From author of THE THORN BIRDS, one of the biggest-selling books of all time, comes this epic saga of love, betrayal and redemption in 1920s Australia. The four Latimer sisters are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit, ambition and sisterly love. They thought that would never change. But then they left home to train as nurses, swapping the feather beds of their father's townhouse for the spartan bunks of nursing accommodation. And now, as the Depression casts its shadow across Australia, they must confront their own secret desires as the world changes around them. Will the sisters find the independence they crave? Or is life - like love - always bittersweet?

A Captain Carmine Delmonico mystery from the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds. August 1969. Two anonymous male corpses are discovered in the sleepy college town of Holloman, Connecticut. After connecting the emaciated bodies to four other victims, the police realise that Holloman has a psychopathic killer on the loose. Captain Carmine Delmonico's team begins to circle a trio of eccentrics who share family ties, painful memories, and a dark past. Things become even murkier when one of them turns out to be a friend of Sergeant Delia Carstairs. Delia has also recently befriended the head of the local mental hospital, who has been trying to rehabilitate a very difficult patient. When another vicious murder rocks Holloman, Carmine realises that two killers are at large with completely different modus operandi. Suddenly the summer isn't so sleepy anymore. ..

Set in the year 2032, in an America of diminishing resources, ecological disasters and moral hopelessness, this is the story of Doctor Joshua Christian who embarks on a crusade that becomes an epic pilgrimage of superhuman proportions.

Twenty years after Pride and Prejudice closes, the Bennet sisters have another remarkable story to tell. Mary Bennet, of the atrocious voice and staid bent of mind, has been weighed down with family obligations. Her sisters have made lives of their own: Jane is happily married, Elizabeth finds being a Darcy brings unwelcome social pre-eminence, Lydia's still entranced by soldiers, and Kitty's a star of London's fashionable salons. But Mary has had to wait for her moment to claim her liberty. Once she is free, Mary resolves to publish a book about the plight of England's poor. Plunging from one pedicament to another, she embarks upon a mission of investigation that eventually leads her into mortal danger. But having tasted independence, Mary resolves to keep it - and she will let nobody, whether family, suitor or enemy, take it away. Warm, witty, tragic and eminently satisfying, The Independence of Mary Bennet is a novel for every woman who has yearned to make her mark upon the world, from a master story teller.

Locking your door won't help. He's already inside!

Fortælling om familien Cleary's liv i Australien fra begyndelsen af 1915 og halvtreds år frem. I centrum står den rødhårede Meggie og hendes store kærlighed til den katolske præst Ralph

Un roman historique sur la découverte de l'Australie, par l'auteure de Les oiseaux se cachent pour mourir ." La force et la ténacité de son héros font de ce roman l'un des meilleurs de McCullough. " Kirkus Review 1775. Richard Morgan tient une taverne à Bristol. Un jour, son fils disparaît et son épouse est retrouvée morte. Accusé du crime, il est jeté en prison, mais son calvaire ne s'arrête pas là...Il est condamné à l'exil et doit embarquer à bord d'une frégate. Destination, une île perdue au large de l'Australie : Norfolk.En cette contrée, une nouvelle vie l'attend. Des hommes violents gouvernent, la loi du plus fort règne. Morgan devra faire preuve d'une force d'âme à toute épreuve pour parvenir à faire sienne cette terre maudite.S'appuyant sur des faits historiques – Richard Morgan a vraiment existé –, Colleen McCullough retrace dans ce premier volet de L'espoir est une terre lointaine le destin des pionniers qui fondèrent l'Australie.

En cette fin du 18ème siècle, l'empire britannique est ébranlé. Les colonies américaines se sont rebellées et les comptoirs établis en Afrique sont un échec.Quant au royaume, il est enlisé dans une crise économique majeure. Georges III et le parti Tory répondent aux tensions sociales exacerbées par une sévère répression. Les géôles se remplissent. Un noble propose d'envoyer les proscrits hors du territoire vers la terra australia, contrée hostile récemment découverte par James Cook. Condamné à 7 ans d'exil suite à une machination diabolique, Richard Morgan fait partie de la première expédition. Il embarque sur l'Alexander, un navire négrier en partance pour les plages inhospitalières de Botany Bay. C'est les fers aux pieds, entouré de la lie de l'humanité, qu'il va élever, sans le savoir, les fondations d'une grande nation moderne.

Romantika a dobrodružství v idylické Anglii doby Jane Austenové – v tomto rámci se odehrává nápaditý příběh australské autorky Colleen McCulloughové, kterou zlákalo pokušení napsat pokračování příběhu o sestrách Bennetových, známého z románu Pýcha a předsudek. Skvělá vypravěčka si za hlavní postavu vybrala Mary, prostřední z pěti sester, a dokázala napsat strhující pokračování, plné překvapení a nečekaných zvratů. Po sedmnácti letech je Mary už osmatřicet – ale rozkvetla do krásy a po matčině smrti je rozhodnutá vyrazit za vlastním dobrodružstvím. Vydává se na cesty, povzbuzená novinovými články záhadného autora, a touží napsat knihu. To se ovšem nelíbí jejímu švagrovi, který má obavy, že by mohla odhalit neblahá tajemství. Jiskřivá romance z pera slavné autorky se čte jedním dechem a prozradí nám, že na pravou lásku není nikdy pozdě.

Riprende con / favoriti della Fortuna l'appassionante saga romana di Colleen McCullough. Mentre Siila, malridotto dagli anni e dalle infermità, esercita spietatamente il potere di dictator, massacrando i nemici e confiscandone le proprietà per risanare le finanze dell'Urbe, il giovane Pompeo, brillante stratega, conduce difficili campagne militari. E si fa luce Giulio Cesare, aristocratico, biondo «sacerdote di Giove Massimo», sposato alla bella Cinnilla, amata moglie-bambina. Mitici eroi di cui l'autrice ripercorre le vicende con impeccabile rigore storico, ma nel contempo lasciando ampio spazio alla fantasia romanzesca là dove descrive, nella dimensione quotidiana, il gioco mutevole dei sentimenti e delle passioni. Così, a eventi cruciali per la storia romana - la ribellione di Sertorio in Spagna, le vittorie e le disfatte delle legioni nella Provincia d'Asia, la rivolta di Spartaco - si intrecciano storie d'invidia e di gelosia, di sofferenze e di aspre rivalità, di infatuazioni, di donne, d'amore. Nel variegato scenario di una Roma a un tempo sfarzosa e popolare, dove i trionfi dei vincitori e le nobili allocuzioni dei senatori si alternano a episodi di spietatezza, corruzione, abiezione, la McCullough da vita ancora una volta a un'avvincente epopea, confermandosi prodigiosa affabulatrice.

Ο Πάντυ Κλήαρι και η οικογένειά του ζουν στην Ντρογκέντα, ένα μεγάλο αγρόκτημα στην Αυστραλία, δουλεύοντας σκληρά για να επιβιώσουν. Τα εφτά παιδιά του μεγαλώνουν και εξελίσσονται ακολουθώντας το καθένα το πεπρωμένο του. Εφτά διαφορετικοί χαρακτήρες, εφτά διαφορετικές ιστορίες. Πιο συναρπαστική, πιο πολυκύμαντη απ’ όλες εκείνη της μονάκριβης κόρης της οικογένειας, της Μέγκυ. Ο ανεπίτρεπτος από θείους και ανθρώπινους νόμους έρωτάς της για τον ωραίο και φιλόδοξο ιερέα Ραλφ θα σημαδέψει ολόκληρη τη ζωή της. «Φτιάχνουμε μόνοι μας τ’ αγκάθια μας κι ύστερα το μόνο που μας μένει είναι να υπομένουμε τον πόνο, λέγοντας στον εαυτό μας πως άξιζε τον κόπο», θα πει η Μέγκυ.

Rom trues udefra, og hjemme er vejen til senatet penge og fornem familie. Ægteskab med Julia-søstrene bliver afgørende for den hæderlige Gaius Marius og den småforbryderiske Sulla.