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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.

Before she died in 2015, Colleen McCullough finished her last book - not a novel, but this short, thought-provoking book on water resources and how we use them, along with an affectionate and enlightening portrait of her friend Michael Crouch, the pioneering businessman who built Zip water heaters into a hugely successful Australian company.

Posledný román autorky bestselleru Vtáky v tŕní. Pútavá romantická sága, odohrávajúca sa v Austrálii v 20. rokoch minulého storočia, zachytáva osudy dvoch párov dvojčiat. Edda a Grace, Tufts a Kitty – to sú štyri sestry, dcéry reverenda Latimera z mestečka Corunda. Všetky štyri sú krásne, bystré a ambiciózne, musia však čeliť predsudkom, čo vládnu vo vtedajšej spoločnosti. Ich život sa od základov zmení, keď sa v miestnej nemocnici zamestnajú ako ošetrovateľky a zapoja sa do programu pre diplomované zdravotné sestry. A hoci prežívajú turbulentné časy, ako aj osobné vzostupy a pády, ich sesterské puto zostáva stále rovnako silné.

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. ..

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.

Locking your door won't help. He's already inside!

Colleen McCullough retells the tragic and terrible drama of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans and the impact of one woman's beauty on the fate of two nations. This novel is a fictional account of Homer's Iliad