COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

England, Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts: Richard Morgan ist ein angesehener Bürger der Stadt Bristol, ein liebevoller Ehemann und Vater. Doch als er seine Frau und seinen kleinen Sohn verliert, gerät sein Leben aus den Fugen. Unschuldig verurteilt, wird er in jenes unbekannte Land deportiert, von dessen Existenz damals kaum jemand gehört hatte: Terra...

In a novel of sweeping narrative power unequaled since her own beloved worldwide bestseller The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough returns to Australia -- this time with the story of its birth. At the center of her new novel is Richard Morgan, son of a Bristol tavern-keeper, devoted husband and loving father, sober and hardworking craftsman. By th...

Locking your door won’t help. He’s already inside… America in 1968 is in turmoil and the leafy Holloman suburb of Carew is being silently terrorised by a series of vicious and systematic rapes. When finally one victim finds the courage to speak out and go to the police, the rapist escalates to murder. For Captain Carmine Delmonico, it seems to b...

Some men and women, she reflected, fell into their proper profession, the only one they were...