Colleen McCullough, Author Avon Books $7.99 (1104p) ISBN 978-0-380-71081-2
Gaius Marius, brilliant military leader and six-term Roman consul, heads the cast of a hefty historical novel replete with politics, social infighting, bloody battles and domestic drama. ``Evoking with impeccably researched, meticulous detail the...
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Colleen McCullough. Simon & Schuster, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4767-5541-0
In this sweeping historical saga, McCullough (The Thorn Birds) explores the lives and loves of four sisters in 1920s Australia. Edda and Grace are twins, as are Heather (dubbed Tufts) and Katherine, (called Kitty). Since career options for women are
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Colleen McCullough. Simon & Schuster, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4767-3533-7
McCullough’s fifth Capt. Carmine Delmonico novel (after 2012’s The Prodigal Son) will be welcomed by readers who just love that creepy feeling. It starts with a man being starved to death as well as castrated—and he’s not the only victim. Finding a...
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Colleen McCullough. Simon & Schuster, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-6875-9
In the prologue of McCullough’s disappointing fourth novel featuring Capt. Carmine Delmonico of the Holloman, Conn., police department (after 2010’s Naked Cruelty), John Hall, a long-lost heir recently arrived from Oregon, dies from a lethal...
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Colleen McCullough, Author William Morrow & Company $22.95 (896p) ISBN 978-0-688-09368-6
If nothing else, this hefty tome, the first of a projected series, proves that McCullough ( The Thornbirds ) can write a serious historical novel that edifies while it entertains. Evoking with impeccably researched, meticulous detail the political...
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Colleen McCullough, Author Orion Books $27.5 (404p) ISBN 978-0-7528-1413-1
Never one to shy away from a good saga, Colleen McCullough (The Thorn Birds) tackles the Trojan War in The Song of Troy, a retelling modern in idiom but faithful to the original where it counts. Narrated by several of the key participants (Achille
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Colleen McCullough, Author William Morrow & Company $27.5 (752p) ISBN 978-0-688-09372-3
The fifth book (after Caesar's Women) in McCullough's popular Masters of Rome series depicts Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul, his momentous decision to cross the Rubicon and his eventual defeat of rival Pompey at Pharsalus. Around these military...
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Colleen McCullough, Author William Morrow & Company $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-09371-6
Senator and debtor, general and seducer, orator and would-be world conqueror, Julius Caesar, as depicted in this fourth installment (after Fortune's Favorites) in McCullough's epic re-creation of ancient Rome, is both a force of nature and something
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Colleen McCullough, Author Avon Books $7.99 (1072p) ISBN 978-0-380-71083-6
The sequel to The Grass Crown charts the conquests of Sulla and Pompey, the exploits of Spartacus and the rise of Caesar. (May)
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Colleen McCullough, Author Avon Books $7.99 (1104p) ISBN 978-0-380-71082-9
Continuing the saga of the Roman Empire begun with The First Man in Rome , McCullough spins a stupendous tale of love, lust and murderous ambition. This title was cited in PW 's ``red and black'' feature as having failed significantly in hardcover...
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Colleen McCullough, Author . Simon & Schuster $28 (800p) ISBN 978-0-684-85331-4
Caesar may be the nominal protagonist of this last novel in a series of six chronicling the demise of the Roman Republic, but the presiding spirit is that of Octavian (later Augustus), Caesar's successor and Rome's first emperor. McCullough&#
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Colleen McCullough, Simon & Schuster, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4391-7831-7
Set in 1968, McCullough's uneven third Carmine Delmonico novel (after Too Many Murders) finds the Holloman, Conn., police captain facing multiple problems. On the crime front, a serial rapist calling himself Didus ineptus, the Linnaean name for the...
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Colleen McCullough, Author Simon & Schuster $28 (608p) ISBN 978-0-684-85329-1
HMcCullough's narrative skills are fully displayed in this intricately researched, passionate epic of 18th-century England's colonization of Australia, in which an upright Bristol tavernkeeper, Richard Morgan, becomes one of the first British...
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Colleen McCullough, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (371p) ISBN 978-1-4391-7747-1
Set in a Connecticut college town, bestseller McCullough's disappointing sequel to On, Off
(2006) starts off with an over-the-top premise and doesn't improve from there. In April 1967, a dozen murders occur in the normally quiet town of...
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Colleen McCullough, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9648-6
McCullough’s (The Thorn Birds
) sequel to Pride and Prejudice
vaults the characters of the original into a ridiculously bizarre world, spinning dizzily among plot lines until it finally crashes to a close. The novel begins 20 years after...
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Colleen McCullough, Author . Simon & Schuster $28 (567p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5294-9
McCullough (The Thorn Birds
; The October Horse
) continues her Masters of Rome series with a chronicle of one of history's most infamous love affairs. After the death of Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Caesar's ambitious and brash cousin, and
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Colleen McCullough, Author . Simon & Schuster $25.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8642-8
Australian McCullough (The Thorn Birds
) portrays one of the creepiest serial killers in recent fiction in this intelligent shocker set in 1965 at an Ivy League university called Chubb located in Holloman, Conn. After an animal lab technician finds...
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Colleen McCullough, Author . Simon & Schuster $25.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-684-85330-7
After last year's The October Horse
, the final installment in her series set in ancient Rome, McCullough returns to her native Australia to chronicle the adventures of Scotsman Alex Kinross, a headstrong and handsome former boilermaker's...
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Colleen McCullough, Author, Peter Chapman, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (189p) ISBN 978-0-06-015739-5
Like a box of chocolates, this short novel by McCullough is seductive and satisfying; readers will want to devour it in one sitting. Set in the early 1900s in the tiny town of Byron, nestled in the Australia's Blue Mountains, it tells of the...
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