Most Popular Books by Colleen McCullough

I wouldn''t walk on coals of fire for any man, but Flo? She''s my angel puss. My child. It''s 1960, and twenty-one-year-old Harriet ignores her father''s warning that ''only fools, Bohemians and tarts live at Kings Cross'' and moves into Mrs Delvecchio Schwartz''s rooming house. there she learns about men, love, and tarot cards. But it is mute four-year-old Flo who captures Harriet''s heart, and who teaches her that protecting those you care for most can be hardest of all. ANGEL PUSS vividly evokes the dynamism and passions of a Kings Cross that has gone. It is also the story of women''s love for children, and the sacrifices a woman will make to protect and nurture a beloved child. ''irreverent, moving and irascibly funny'' tHE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD''a ripping read - big in spirit, heart and charm ... I was beguiled'' tHE AGE''Harriet is unforgettable'' WESt AUStRALIAN

The best-selling author of The Thorn Birds presents a sequel to Pride and Prejudice that finds the willful third Bennet sister setting out in her late thirties in pursuit of adventure while her sisters worry about her at home.

The first non-fiction work from the author of The Thorn Birds. A portrait of an extraordinary Australian. Roden Cutler, V.C. is the story of Sir Roden Cutler, war hero, diplomat and former Governor of New South Wales. Born in 1916 and educated at Sydney University, he joined the AIF in 1940, serving in Syria and Lebanon. In Syria his courage in capturing enemy positions won him a Victoria Cross and, in another battle, a machine gun injury led to a leg being amputated. After the war he served as a diplomat in Ceylon, Egypt, Pakistan, New York and the Netherlands. He was Australian delegate to the United Nationals General Assembly in 1963 and 1964. In 1966 he returned to Australia to become Governor of New South Wales, a position he held until 1981. Sir Roden Cutler is a widely respected -- and widely loved -- figure whose life encompasses major moments in Australian and international history.

Missy Wright''s mother has been shunned by her family since marrying for love, not money. Now widowed, the women live a quiet existence in genteel poverty. Plain, thin and unforgivably single, it seems Missy''s life is destined to be dreary. But then a stranger arrives in town and opens Missy''s eyes to the possibility of a happy ending.

Sometimes fairy toles can come true-even for plain, shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicianor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to aquiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family''s pitifullysmall homestead in Australia''s Blue Mountains. But It''s a brandnew century-the twentieth-a time for new thoughts and boldnew actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of Byron wagging. Because she hasjust set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted and unsuspectingstranger ... who just might be Prince-Charming in disguise.

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. Colleen McCullough vividly shows us the 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. His diplomatic career was to 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 that 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. In an age accustomed to public idols with feet of clay, Roden Cutler is the exception: a man whose integrity is as formidable as his humility is astonishing.

110 avant Jésus-Christ. La République romaine est minée par la corruption, la cupidité et les luttes de factions. Deux hommes, Pourtant, se dressent. Deux hommes animés d''une semblable ambition : devenir le maître de Rome. Tout les oppose : l''âge, le milieu, la manière. Marius, chef de guerre et habile politicien, a contre lui ses origines, c''est un notable enrichi, qui n''appartient a aucune des lignées patriciennes qui gouvernent la cité depuis la chute de la monarchie. Sylla, esprit supérieur et tacticien de génie, est de naissance aristocratique ; mais c''est un homme désargenté, qui a décidé d''oublier sa condition dans la recherche effrénée des plaisirs. Aucun des deux ne semble disposer des moyens pour parvenir à ses fins. C''est compter sans la fortune, qui a décidé de leur sourire... Leur affrontement désormais, semble inéluctable.

This is the story of Sulla''s return from exile, his installation as dictator of Rome and his self-imposed retirement. It witnesses the spectacle of Roman politics involving Pompey, Spartacus and his doomed slave revolts and Caesar''s exploits as a young soldier and advocate.