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...
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.
In the long, fabled history of Rome, never was there one more adored -- yet more feared -- than Gaius Julius Caesar. Invincible on the field of battle, he commands the love and loyalty of those who fight at his side and would gladly give their lives for his glory. Yet in Rome there are enemies everywhere orchestrating his downfall and disgrace. Fanatical rivals like Cato and Bibulus would tear Rome asunder just to destroy her greatest champion -- using their wiles, position, and false promises to seduce others into the fold: vacillating Cicero, the spineless Brutus ... even Pompey the Great, Caesar's former ally. But only ill fortune can come to the "Good Men" who underestimate Caesar. For Rome is his glorious destiny -- one that will impel him reluctantly to the banks of the Rubicon ... and beyond, into triumphant legend.
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.
It was one of the greatest human experiments ever undertaken: to populate an unknown land with the criminal, the unloved and the unwanted of English society. Amid conditions of brutality that paralleled those of slavery, 'The First Fleet' was sent to a pl
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 to be won only through treachery and with blood, pitting Marius against a new generation of assassins, powerseekers and Senate intriguers.