Colleen McCullough Ordre des livres (chronologique)

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.

Australie, 1925. Les sœurs Latimer, 18 et 19 ans, sont réputées dans toute la région pour leur beauté, leur esprit et… leur ambition. Edda et Grace, les aînées, sœurs jumelles, sont issues de la première union du révérend Latimer ; Heather et Kitty, également jumelles, sont les filles de l’ex- gouvernante du presbytère, qui a épousé le pasteur en secondes noces. Fuyant l’austérité du foyer, elles décident de se former toutes quatre au métier d’infirmière dans l’hôpital de leur ville natale, en Nouvelle-Galles du Sud. Là, elles pourront aussi laisser libre cours à leurs aspirations – la recherche de l’amour et de l’indépendance. Quel que soit le chemin qu’empruntera chacune, elles le savent, elles resteront à jamais unies. Mais la Grande Dépression n’est pas loin, qui pourrait balayer bien des rêves…

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. ..

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

La Maison de l'ange Sydney, 1960. AprA]s avoir pris, son indA(c)pendance, Harriet, 21 ans s'installe dans un quartier mal famA(c) de Sydney. L'atmosphA]re des lieux libA]re les sens de la jeune femme qui noue des liens avec les autres locataires de la maison. Le jour oA Mme Delvecchio-Schwartz, la propriA(c)taire, est assassinA(c)e, elle laisse derriA]re elle Flo, sa fille autiste - et clairvoyante - de 4 ans. SubjuguA(c)e par l'enfant, Harriet sera prAate A tout pour s'en occuper. Les Dames de Missalonghi Byron, Nouvelles-Galles du Sud, dans les annA(c)es qui prA(c)cA]dent la PremiA]re Guerre mondiale. Entre sa mA]re, sa tante et leurs travaux d'aiguille, Missy, 33 ans, ignore tout de la vie. Lorsque le mystA(c)rieux et sA(c)duisant John Smith apparaA(R)t dans sa vie, Missy voit en lui un clin d'oeil du destin. Qu'elle ne compte pas laisser s'A(c)chapper... Quoi qu'il en coAte. Un autre nom pour l'amour Automne 1945. Honora est infirmiA]re sur une A(R)le du Pacifique. Elle doit s'occuper de six hommes rescapA(c)s mais traumatisA(c)s par la guerre. Plus qu'une aide soignante, la jeune femme reprA(c)sente pour eux une mA]re, une soeur... mais aussi un objet de convoitise. L'arrivA(c)e du tA(c)nA(c)breux Mike Wilson fera naA(R)tre des sentiments jusqu'au paroxysme de la haine et de la jalousie...

Au tournant du XXe siècle en Australie, une jeune femme épouse, contre son gré, un riche propriétaire d'une mine d'or. Une saga familliale débute ..

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.

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 a story of breathtaking scope, Colleen McCullough returns to the magnificent setting of her international bestseller The Thorn Birds. 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 is shattered but Morgan refuses to surrender, overcoming all obstacles to find unexpected contentment and happiness in the harsh early days of Australia's settlement. From England's shores to Botany Bay and the rugged frontier of a hostile new world, Morgan's Run is the epic tale of love lost and found, and the man whose strength and character helped settle a country and define its future.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

À Holloman (Connecticut), ville rongée par le désespoir et la dépression, le docteur Joshua Christian prodigue à ses patients une attention particulière. Son charisme et l’aura magnétique qu’il dégage suffisent souvent à soulager les maux. Judith Scariott, une femme manipulatrice et sans scrupules, semble avoir trouvé en sa personne une figure d’espoir et une voix libératrice pour tous les Américains. Elle fait alors de Joshua une star des médias, dont la seule apparition suffit à convaincre les foules. Joshua se prête admirablement au jeu, jusqu’à se sentir investi d’une véritable mission. Ses initiales, J. C., ne seraient-elles pas celle d’un nouveau prophète ? C’est alors qu’il décide de s’affranchir de ceux qui le manipulent…

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.

A devoted nurse is a favorite among the wounded soldiers in her charge. Then everything changes with the arrival of a decorated, yet damaged, war hero. The nurse finds herself drawn to this tortured man, and the couple soon discovers a soul stirring passion that ultimately leads to violent tragedy. Reissue.

413pages. poche. broché. Traduit de l'anglais par Lagrange Jacqueline et Hall Jacques.

Mary Horton, une femme d’une cinquantaine d’années, mène une vie austère dans sa villa au bord d’une plage de Sidney. Cloîtrée dans la solitude, elle a depuis toujours étouffé ses aspirations de femme… Un jour, elle fait la rencontre de Tim Melville, jeune homme de 25 ans, d’une grande beauté, mais dont les yeux bleus trahissent le désespoir. Et, en dépit de son âge, il a conservé une âme d’enfant. Quand Tim devient le jardinier de Mary, une étrange relation se noue entre ces deux êtres égarés : ils s’entendent immédiatement, et la richesse de leurs échanges illuminent leur existence. Mais, s’ils semblent enfin sur le point de trouver le bonheur, ni l’un ni l’autre ne paraît prêt à s’y abandonner totalement…