Mary is a middle aged spinster with a successful career and financial security. With all of the trappings of her success she feels that her life is quite satisfactory and she has no desire to have her perfectly organised life disrupted by a relationship. Then, through chance, she meets a young labourer whose phyisical beauty appears unmarred by the experiences of the modern world. It is only when Mary gets to know Tim that she realises why. For all his beauty, Tim is simple. Although they are worlds apart in age, background and intelligence, Mary and Tim discover a love that transcends convention and prejudice. Colleen McCullough has taken a controversial subject and turned it into one of the most beautifully written and moving love stories of our time. Absolutely wonderful!

McCullough's Morgan's Run is a massive historical panoply presented to the reader in vivid poster colours, while powerful, larger-than-life characterisation galvanizes a narrative of nigh-operatic proportions. Set once again in Australia, it is a return to the grand level of The Thorn Birds.McCullough's theme is the dispatching of criminals (and other undesirables) from the mother country to the unknown wilds of Australia in the 18th century. The brutality and savagery of the transportation scenes are conveyed with maximum impact, but it is the day-to-day existence of the exiles, abandoned on the inhospitable Australian continent, that most exercises McCullough's imagination.Her protagonist Richard Morgan is an unlikely figure (a convicted felon who is both tough and resourceful but also sensitive and highly educated) but he's just the kind of hero to bestride an adventure of as large a scale as this. As Morgan attempts to deal with both natural disasters and the mendacity and subterfuge of his fellow survivors, we see a microcosm of the hardy society that Australia was to become taking shape before our eyes. The brilliantly realised and fastidiously researched period detail of the epic setting makes this most memorable (reproductions of maps, paintings, ships' plans and other material lends verisimilitude). McCullough has created a yarn that comprehensively grips for all its 600-odd pages; her skill at creating convincing period dialogue being the strong thread that runs throughout: 'Your men stay here because I have no other place to stow them,' said Sinclair. 'As a matter of fact, they are occupying valuable space my firm contracted to fill up with more useful cargo than a lot of thieving, rum-swilling twiddle-poops not clever enough to get into the navy nor rich enough to get into the army. Ye're the entire world's leavings, Ross, you and your marines. Cluttering up my crew's galley, with two dozen dogs - look at my boot! Ye lowlands bastard without a mother!' 'Who's the lowlands bastard, ye Glasgow bitch's by-blow?' There was a pause as both the combatants searched wildly for a new and mortally wounding thing to say. --Barry Forshaw

McCullough\'s Morgan\'s Run is a massive historical panoply presented to the reader in vivid poster colours, while powerful, larger-than-life characterisation galvanizes a narrative of nigh-operatic proportions. Set once again in Australia, it is a return to the grand level of The Thorn Birds.McCullough\'s theme is the dispatching of criminals (and other undesirables) from the mother country to the unknown wilds of Australia in the 18th century. The brutality and savagery of the transportation scenes are conveyed with maximum impact, but it is the day-to-day existence of the exiles, abandoned on the inhospitable Australian continent, that most exercises McCullough\'s imagination.Her protagonist Richard Morgan is an unlikely figure (a convicted felon who is both tough and resourceful but also sensitive and highly educated) but he\'s just the kind of hero to bestride an adventure of as large a scale as this. As Morgan attempts to deal with both natural disasters and the mendacity and subterfuge of his fellow survivors, we see a microcosm of the hardy society that Australia was to become taking shape before our eyes. The brilliantly realised and fastidiously researched period detail of the epic setting makes this most memorable (reproductions of maps, paintings, ships\' plans and other material lends verisimilitude). McCullough has created a yarn that comprehensively grips for all its 600-odd pages; her skill at creating convincing period dialogue being the strong thread that runs throughout: \'Your men stay here because I have no other place to stow them,\' said Sinclair. \'As a matter of fact, they are occupying valuable space my firm contracted to fill up with more useful cargo than a lot of thieving, rum-swilling twiddle-poops not clever enough to get into the navy nor rich enough to get into the army. Ye\'re the entire world\'s leavings, Ross, you and your marines. Cluttering up my crew\'s galley, with two dozen dogs - look at my boot! Ye lowlands bastard without a mother!\' \'Who\'s the lowlands bastard, ye Glasgow bitch\'s by-blow?\' There was a pause as both the combatants searched wildly for a new and mortally wounding thing to say. --Barry Forshaw

To the battle-broken soldiers in her care, nurse Honour Langtry is a precious, adored reminder of the world before war. Then Michael Wilson arrives under a cloud of mystery and shame to change everything. A damaged and decorated hero, a man of secrets and silent pain, soon he alone possesses Honour's selfless heart; inciting tense and volatile passions that canonly lead to jealousy, violence, and death. Author Biography: Colleen McCullough's name is synonymouswith bestselling fiction. She is the author of nine extraordinary novels; TIM, AN INDECENT OBSESSION, A CREED FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM, THE LADIES OF MISSALONGHI, THE FIRST MAN IN ROME, THE GRASS CROWN, FORTUNE'S FAVORITES, CAESAR'S WOMEN, and the acclaimed International phenomenon, THE THORN BIRDS.

At Connecticut's most prestigious medical research institute, something is very wrong. It's the 1960s and America is in ferment, but at the Hug, the daily business of research continues, and the hierarchies of power remain undisturbed. Until the body of a woman is found in one of the animal research laboratories one morning. And then another ... The bestselling author of The Thorn Birds and Angel Puss delivers an edge-of-the-seat thriller with many a twist and turn as the lives - and pasts - of those in this little university town unravel. A genuinely unputdownable read, guaranteed to keep you up all night.

It's a beautiful spring day in the little city of Holloman, Connecticut; the year is 1967, and the world teeters on the brink of nuclear holocaust as the Cold War goes relentlessly on. But Holloman has other things to worry about on April 3rd, 1967; twelve murders have taken place on one day. Suddenly Captain Carmine Delmonico, chief of detectives, has other, more important matters to occupy him than finding a satisfactory name for his infant son. With his cohorts Abe Goldberg and Corey Marshall giving him unfailing support, Carmine embarks on what looks like an insoluble case. All the murders are different, and no victim is connected to any of the others. One group centers around the great university, Chubb, while another is inextricably tied to the armaments giant, Cornucopia. And as if twelve murders were not enough, Carmine soon finds himself pitted against the mysterious Ulysses, a spy giving Cornucopia's armaments secrets to the Russians. Are the murders and espionage different cases, or are they somehow linked?

McCullough's Morgan's Run is a massive historical panoply presented to the reader in vivid poster colours, while powerful, larger-than-life characterisation galvanizes a narrative of nigh-operatic proportions. Set once again in Australia, it is a return to the grand level of The Thorn Birds.McCullough's theme is the dispatching of criminals (and other undesirables) from the mother country to the unknown wilds of Australia in the 18th century. The brutality and savagery of the transportation scenes are conveyed with maximum impact, but it is the day-to-day existence of the exiles, abandoned on the inhospitable Australian continent, that most exercises McCullough's imagination.Her protagonist Richard Morgan is an unlikely figure (a convicted felon who is both tough and resourceful but also sensitive and highly educated) but he's just the kind of hero to bestride an adventure of as large a scale as this. As Morgan attempts to deal with both natural disasters and the mendacity and subterfuge of his fellow survivors, we see a microcosm of the hardy society that Australia was to become taking shape before our eyes. The brilliantly realised and fastidiously researched period detail of the epic setting makes this most memorable (reproductions of maps, paintings, ships' plans and other material lends verisimilitude). McCullough has created a yarn that comprehensively grips for all its 600-odd pages; her skill at creating convincing period dialogue being the strong thread that runs throughout: 'Your men stay here because I have no other place to stow them,' said Sinclair. 'As a matter of fact, they are occupying valuable space my firm contracted to fill up with more useful cargo than a lot of thieving, rum-swilling twiddle-poops not clever enough to get into the navy nor rich enough to get into the army. Ye're the entire world's leavings, Ross, you and your marines. Cluttering up my crew's galley, with two dozen dogs - look at my boot! Ye lowlands bastard without a mother!' 'Who's the lowlands bastard, ye Glasgow bitch's by-blow?' There was a pause as both the combatants searched wildly for a new and mortally wounding thing to say. --Barry Forshaw