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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. -
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. -
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. -
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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Colleen McCullough was always resistant to the idea of writing an autobiography, believing that books about the self tend to be 'stuffed to pussy's bow with boring bits.' So she left those out and wrote a series of essays, some of which touch on events in her adventurous life. Here are the clues, the philosophy of life and the beliefs that shaped the mind of Australia's most brilliant author: the impulsive, confused, thoughtlessly cruel mother; the miserly absentee father the brother she loved dearly and what Colleen thought about all manner of things including the Crucifixion, Midsomer Murders, William Shakespeare, the journalist who believed cat farts harmed the planet and unelected power. -
Book IV of the Rome series. Here is Gaius Julius Caesar's rise to prominence, beginning with his return to Rome in 68 B.C. to make the Forum a battlefield of words, plots, schemes and metaphorical assassination. Today's friend may be tomorrow's foe with political shifts and changes. And Caesar will prove that he is master of this battlefield as well. And his victories are not limited to the Forum. He conquers Rome's noblewomen: Servilia, powerful, vindictive and mother of a youth named Brutus; his mother, his daughter and Rome's revered Vestal Virgins. He is loved, yet to Caesar, love is simply another weapon.
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Antony And Cleopatra: Colleen McCullough
$12.00–$18.00Book VII of Masters Of Rome. Brutus and Cassius are dead at Phillippi, leaving two men to inherit the world: Octavian, young, brilliant and sickly-looking - or Mark Antony, a powerful war-lord in his prime. It seems like no contest. But Cleopatra, mourning the death of Julius Caesar, is determined to attain world power for her son Caesarion. She must choose to seduce either Antony or Octavian and makes Antony her choice. But Antony is first and foremost a Roman and she must first overcome his prejudices. A compelling chronicle of love, hate, defeat and victory as Antony and Cleopatra challenge Octavian for the world. -
Told in the form of a diary, this is the story of young Harriet's bid for freedom in the Sydney of the 1960's. She wants to have her own space, live life, learn about men and love - not get married just because everyone expects her to! And who is Mrs Delvecchio Schwarz, who runs the King's Cross boarding house where Harriet takes a room? What is her connection with Harriet? And how does Mrs Delveccvhio Schwarz's silent little girl Flo - 'Angel Puss' - accurately predict the future through crayon drawings?
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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.
