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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. -
Set in the United States of the future, Dr. Joshua Christian's work as a clinical psychologist presents him with a bitter tableau of people spiritually impoverished by too much change: political, climatic, idealogical. His deep compassion and personal magnetism have created a devout following among his patients, but living and working in the backwater of a Connecticut town, he yearns to reach out and help on a larger scale. Dr Judith Carriol, a brilliant senior official from the Department of the Environment is as ambitious and career-oriented as she is Machiavellian. She recognises in Joshua the personification of her desire to influence history. Together the embark on a crusade to regenerate the country's morale by radically changing its peoples' outlook. Judith engineers the plot, Joshua must execute it and on a tour of the winter-devastated country, he turns the tour into a pilgrimage that touches and renews the despairing hearts of the people.
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1965, Holloman, Connecticut, and someone is preying on the innocent. At a prestigious research centre for neurosciences comfortably called 'The Hug', parts of a body are discovered. Lt. Carmine Delmonico of the Holloman Police learns that a string of horrifying disappearances, each fitting the same modus operandi as the body at The Hug, has been occurring throughout the state. Then another body is found, again linked to The Hug. As Delmonico delves deeper, it seems everyone at The Hug has something to hide but he is determined to solve this case - even though the killer is a monster who leaves no clues and is always two steps ahead. A page turner that will keep you in until the very last page. -
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. -
1968: America is in turmoil and the leafy Hoplloman suburb of Carew is being terrorised by a series of vicious and systematic rapes. When one victim finally finds the courage to speak out and go to the police, the rapist escalates to murder. For Captain Carmine Delmonico, it seems to be a case with no clues. And it comes as the Holloman Police Department is troubled: a lieutenant is out of his depth, a sergeant is out of control and into this mix comes the beautiful, ruthlessly ambitious new trainee, Helen MacIntosh, daughter of the influential president of Chubb University. s the killer plots, Carmine and his team must use every resource available - including a highly motivated neighbourhood watch - the Gentlemen Walkers...
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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 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. -
Caesar: Colleen McCullough
$8.00–$20.00Book V of the Rome series. The leaders of Rome grow ever more frightened and yet more obdurate: Caesar, brilliant and ruthless, must be crushed and sent into exile before he can overthrow the government and set himself up as a dictator. In Gaul, Caesar is engaged in conquest of the fierce and brave Gauls The battles are titanic and evenly matched - yet no Gallic prince has the ambition of Caesar. When Cato and the Senate refuse to give Caesar his due, he crosses the river Rubicon and marches on his country, his army prepared to die for him at his back. But between Caesar and victory stands the ageing Pompey the Great, who must marshal the forces of the Republic and pit himself against the one man he knows cannot be beaten on a field of war. This is the first recorded instance of a modern common fiasco - how impossible it is for generals to wage war while constrained by militarily inept politicians. In the midst of it all, life goes on: Caesar, his women and the personal tragedies which make his life lonelier, yet the Rubicon easier to cross; Pompey and his last two wives, a bitter contrast; Brutus and his cousin Porcia, learning to love; Gaius Cassius, fresh from saving Syria from the Parthians; and the great advocate Cicero, recording history in letters to his friends. -
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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