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Spring, 1967. Captain Carmine Delmonico has a great deal on his plate. Twelve murders have taken place on one day in the little city of Holloman, population 150,000. And it's far too many murders. Is there one killer or many? Is there a connection between the seemingly unconnected victims? Is it all to do with Chubb University, or amaments giant Cornucopia? The small town force is over-taxed with local politics, academic rivalry and corporate greed as they try to get to the bottom of this particular day. A real page turner. -
Tim: Colleen McCullough
$15.00Tim, at twenty five, has the body and face of an Adonis and the mind of a child. Mary is over 40, a cultured career woman who lives alone. She sees Tim working on a building site and they become friends - then more than friends. This edition, pictured, is the original novel, not a novelised film edition. Cover shows Mel Gibson and Piper Laurie as Tim and Mary. -
Set in the latter half of the nineteenth century on the New South Wales goldfields. Alexander Kinross is remembered in his native Scotland as a shiftless apprentice and a Godless rebel. But when he writes to summon his bride, his relatives realise he's made a fortune on the goldfields. His sixteen year old bride is frightened and repelled by him, yet she marries him and is isolated in wild country in a big house with only Chinese servants for company. And she has no idea her husband still has a mistress. Kinross sees no reason not to have both women - he's rich, powerful and has the Midas Touch. But power costs more than even Kinross can pay.
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The robust and romantic novel of the Cleary family in the early 1900s. Paddy Cleary moves his wife, Fiona, and their seven children to Drogheda, the vast Australian sheep station owned by his autocratic and childless older sister. The central characters are Meggie, the only Cleary daughter, and the one man she truly loves, the stunningly handsome and ambitious priest Ralph de Bricassart. Ralph's course takes him from a remote Outback parish to the halls of the Vatican; and Meggie's heart - except for a brief and miserable marriage - is fixed to Drogheda, but distance does not dim their feelings though it shapes their lives. Paddy and Fiona, both carrying their secrets, and their hard-working sons, together with Meggie and Father Ralph span over half a century - until the only survivor of the third generation, the brilliant actress Justine O'Neill, sets a course of life and love halfway around the world from her roots. -
The tale of Helen and Paris, the immortal lovers who doomed two great nations to war. It is told through the eyes of the main characters: the sensuous and self-indulgent Helen; the equally self-indulgent Prince Paris; the subtle, brilliant Odysseus; the noble Hektor; the sad, elderly King Priam; the tormented warrior-prince Achilles and King Agamemnon, who consents to the unspeakable in order to launch his thousand ships incurring the fury of his wife Klytemnestra. Cover art by Sarah Perkins. -
The tale of Helen and Paris, the immortal lovers who doomed two great nations to war. It is told through the eyes of the main characters: the sensuous and self-indulgent Helen; the subtle, brilliant Odysseus; the sad, elderly King Priam; the tormented warrior-prince Achilles and King Agamemnon, who consents to the unspeakable in order to launch his thousand ships. -
The Prodigal Son: Colleen McCullough
$10.00–$20.00Holloman, Connecticut, 1962. A very rare and lethal toxin, extracted from the blowfish, is stolen from a laboratory at Chubb University. It kills in minutes and leaves no trace behind - unless a doctor knows what to look for - and worried biochemist Dr. Millie Hunter reports the theft at once to her father, Medical Examiner Dr. Patrick O'Connell. Patrick's cousin, Captain Carmine Delmonico, is therefore quick off the mark when the bodies start to mount up. A sudden death at a dinner party and another at a gala black-tie event seem only to be linked by the poison and Dr. Jim Hunter, Millie's husband and scientist on the brink of greatness. A black man married to a white woman, Dr. Jim has faced scandal and prejudice for most of his life, so what would cause him to risk it all now? Is he being framed for murder, and if so, by whom? Carmine and his team of detectives must navigate the competitive world of academic publishing, fraught with politics and prestige. The stakes are high: a valuable art collection, a large inheritance, old and upstanding local families, a gold-digging wife, jealous relatives and a young couple's future. -
Masters of Rome VI. Caesar is in the prime of his life and the height of his powers. A man of contradictions, he is happily married and at the same time the lover of Cleopatra. He is a great general but wishes to bring an end to Rome's endless civil and external wars. He is respectful of the Republic and is determined not to be worshipped as a god, but his very greatness attracts dangerous envy. -
The Ladies of Missalonghi: Missy Hurlingford is a poor, plain spinster and she's sick of her life. She's tired of being plain, poor, pitied and most of all, having to wear brown. Then she finds a new friend, Una, whose radical and rebellious ideas begin to work a change in Missy and in the lives of her mother and aunt until they, and the other genteel and poor ladies of the Hurlingford family set out for revenge against the men of the Hurlingford clan who have kept them down and poor. Set in the Blue Mountains in the imaginary town of Byron in the early 1900s. Tim: 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. Tim, in his own special and wonder-filled way, 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.
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