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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. -
It was one of the greatest human experiments undertaken - to populate an unknown land with the criminal, the unloved and the unwanted of English Society. Amid horrendous conditions of brutality, the First Fleet was sent to a place that no European - except Captain Cook - had ever seen and there they were left to live or die on the hostile Australian continent. Richard Morgan - convicted felon and educated, intelligent, resourceful man - finds the will to survive, experience the joy of love and finally make an indelible mark on the new frontier. Meticulously researched and epic. -
Amid conditions of brutality, the First Fleet was sent to a place no European but the legendary Captain Cook had seen. The convicts and their guards were left to live or die on the hostile Australian continent. Richard Morgan - convicted felon, educated and intelligent - finds the will to survive, experience the joys of love and make an indelible mark on the new frontier. A thoroughly researched historical saga.
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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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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. -
Roden Cutler's list of honours is long and impressive, but it is his sole decoration, the Victoria Cross, that marks him as a hero. Over 800,000 men and women served in the Australian armed forces during the Second World War, but only twenty were awarded the V.C. Here are is the vivid life and times of the young soldier with the dashing good looks, the laconic humour and dislike of pretension who came back from the war determined to continue to support his mother, but, having lost a leg, with no idea how to do so. Yet by the age of 29 he was the Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand and his future diplomatic career would include stints to Ceylon, Egypt during the Suez crisis of 1956, Pakistan and New York. In 1966 he was appointed Governor of New South Wales; during his 15 years in the office he shared with Captain Arthur Phillip and Lachlan Macquarie, he earned his own niche among them as the `people's governor'. Much loved, still remembered as a man equally at home in the company of royalty or trade unionists. His story is embedded in Australian history, and part of it. But it is also the story of a man who pulled himself up by his bootstraps to serve his country with courage and dignity in the face of all obstacles. -
Book I of the Masters of Rome series. On New Tear's Day in 110 B.C., two very different men watch the latest Roman mediocrities assume the coveted mantle of consul. One is Sulla, handsome and debauched son of an impeccably aristocratic house. prevented by penury from claiming his birthright; the other is Marius, a wealthy rustic barred by his low birth from grasping his prophesised destiny - to become the First Man in Rome. But the Goddess Fortune favours them both. They are brought together by war in distant lands to battle the enemies of Rome - and the enemies within Rome - in the quest to become the First Man. A meticulously researched and accurate historical novel. -
Book I of the Masters Of Rome series. On New year's Day in 110 B.C. two very different men watch the latest Roman mediocrities assume the coveted mantle of consul. One is Sulla, handsome and debauched son of an impeccably aristocratic house prevented by penury from claiming his birthright and the other is Marius, a wealthy rustic barred by his low birth from grasping his prophesised destiny - to become the First Man in Rome. But the Goddess Fortune favours them both. They are brought together by war in distant lands to battle the enemies of Rome - and the enemies within Rome - in the quest to become the First Man. A meticulously researched and accurate historical novel. Cover art by Tom Hall. -
Book II of the acclaimed Rome series. Marius, the general who saved Rome from barbarian invasion and became consul an unprecedented six times has fallen into decline. Sulla, his closest associate, has withdrawn himself from the commander's circle in preparation for his own bid for power. As a deadly enmity develops between the two men, Rome must fight its own battle for survival - first against the neighbouring Italian states, then against a barbaric Asian conquerer.