Colleen McCullough Libri

La storia dei Cleary inizia ai primi del Novecento e si conclude ai giorni nostri, nel grandioso scenario naturale dell'Australia. Gli anni consumano le vite in una vicenda di sentimenti e passioni, di fede e di amore, sulla quale si stende grave ed inesorabile il senso della giustizia divina. I personaggi, tra i quali memorabili le figure femminili, vanno incontro al destino come gli uccelli di rovo della leggenda australiana, che cercano le spine con cui si danno la morte.

Il romanzo racconta il culmine della parabola di Giulio Cesare dopo la vittoria a Farsalo contro Pompeo, l’amore per Cleopatra e la nascita del figlio Cesarione, i malumori dei circoli aristocratici che sfociano nella congiura di Bruto e Cassio, fino all’ assassinio di Cesare e all’ ascesa di Ottaviano, erede designato e futuro imperatore. In un turbinio di intrighi, battaglie e tormentate storie d’amore, Colleen McCullough ci mette davanti agli occhi uomini e donne d’eccezione – Cesare e il suo genio politico, Cleopatra regina innamorata, l’avido e brutale Marco Antonio, il giovane Ottaviano, feroce, vendicativo, destinato a fondare e guidare l’Impero – e racconta un’epoca capitale nella storia dell’umanità.

Il quinto volume della saga dedicato a Roma. Cesare, la guerra gallica, un crescendo di trionfi, l'ostilità della vecchia Roma senatoria e l'amore del popolo. La ribellione, il passaggio del Rubicone, la guerra civile, Pompeo, Catone Uticense, Cicerone...Le gesta, le passioni, le emozioni di un eroe geniale, affascinante, titanico, uno dei pochi uomini che hanno cambiato realmente il corso della Storia.

Nuovo Galles del Sud, 1870: Alexander Kinross, scozzese, ha fatto fortuna in Australia, scoprendo la più importante miniera d'oro del continente e fondando una città che porta il suo nome. Così, scrive ai parenti in Scozia per chiedere in moglie una cugina. Al suo arrivo a Sydney, la sedicenne Elizabeth scopre che il promesso sposo è attraente, sfrenato, ricchissimo, ma lei non lo ama e non lo amerà mai. Un giorno Alexander accoglie in casa, e adotta come erede, il giovane mezzosangue Lee, figlio dell'unica donna che abbia mai amato, l'ex maitresse Ruby. Tra Lee ed Elizabeth divamperà una passione che sconvolgerà tutto il loro mondo. Una saga familiare che si estende per quattro decenni, un amore più forte delle convenzioni e dei tabù.

Nel mondo occidentale, grandi regni sono caduti e i despoti giacciono schiacciati sotto i piedi delle legioni romane in avanzata. Ma ora una ribellione interna minaccia la stabilità della potente Repubblica. Un Gaius Marius invecchiato e malato, acclamato conquistatore di Germania e Numidia, desidera ciò che era stato profetizzato molti anni prima: un senza precedenti settimo consolato di Roma. Un premio da conquistare solo attraverso la tradimento e il sangue, che mette Marius contro una nuova generazione di assassini, cercatori di potere e intrighi del Senato, e lo pone in conflitto con l'ambizioso e tormentato Lucio Cornelio Silla, un tempo il più fidato braccio destro di Marius, ora il suo rivale più pericoloso.

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.

A Roma, durante gli ultimi anni della Repubblica, si respira un clima politico incerto e oscuro. Tra lotte sociali e guerre civili, alleanze e nuovi complotti, iniziano a brillare le figure dei due grandi generali Mario e Silla. Due uomini eccezionali, diversi per censo e personalità, ma accomunati da una divorante ambizione: conquistare il potere assoluto a Roma, mentre il mondo sta cedendo sotto i colpi delle sue legioni. Un romanzo entusiasmante su uno dei periodi più decisivi della storia romana, che riporta alla vita lo sfarzo, la dissolutezza, le virtù morali e le passioni politiche della Roma repubblicana.

In this breathtaking follow-up to "The October Horse," Colleen McCullough explores the legendary romance of Antony and Cleopatra, showcasing her prowess as a historical novelist. Following Caesar's death, Rome is divided: Lepidus retreats to Africa, Antony rules the East, and Octavian claims the West. This uneasy truce masks the brewing tensions, as Rome yearns for a true heir to Caesar's legacy. Antony, a seasoned general with a lust for power, is poised to seize the prize, indulging in women, feasts, and wine. In contrast, Octavian, a controlled and calculating rival, matches Antony's ambition but lacks his charisma. While politics and warfare are male-dominated, women like Cleopatra and Livia wield their own influence. Cleopatra, the cunning queen, welcomes Antony but guards her heart, aiming to secure her child's place on Caesar's throne. Livia, Octavian's wife, quietly supports her husband's rise to power. As the narrative unfolds, battles, conspiracies, and the intertwining of love and politics lead to an inevitable climax. McCullough's extensive knowledge of Roman history enriches her meticulously researched narrative, bringing to life a cast of characters whose motives and flaws are vividly portrayed against the dramatic backdrop of the Republic's final days.

Troia, un nome che evoca un passato lontano e continua a stimolare l'immaginazione. Da millenni, il poema di Omero narra dell'epico viaggio degli eroi greci verso Troia, dove cercavano di ripristinare l'onore della bella Elena, raccontando la loro decennale assedio della città e la vittoria ottenuta grazie a un inganno. Tuttavia, la lotta per Troia è più di un semplice scontro sanguinoso e di eroica romantica. Troia rappresenta un simbolo d'amore che, sul campo di battaglia dell'onore, deve affrontare crudeli sconfitte. Colleen McCullough, da oltre un decennio, esplora la storia dell'antichità. Nei suoi romanzi, ha dato vita a personaggi di quell'epoca lontana. In "Il canto di Troia", unisce la sua meticolosa ricerca a una vivace fantasia, rendendo tangibili i protagonisti della storia: il determinato Agamennone, il valoroso Achille, la seducente Elena, il coraggioso Ettore, la fiera Penthesilea e la profetica Cassandra nella battaglia del destino davanti a Troia.

Il romanzo narra la vicenda di un ventiquattrenne ritardato di mente, che inizia una relazione con una donna parecchio più anziana di lui. Alla morte della madre, la partner assume nella vita di Tim un ruolo sempre più importante, che porterà, dopo non poche difficoltà, ad un matrimonio.

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.

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?

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.

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.

It is August 14, 1945 - the day the Japanese surrendered. But for the tortured men in Ward X, the end of World War II made no difference. This novel is the follow-up to "The Thorn Birds".

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.

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.

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.