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  Caesar’s Women is available here.​

  V. Caesar

  54 BC

  Caesar’s legions are sweeping across Gaul, brutally subduing the tribes who defy him. But, in Rome, his enemies are plotting his downfall and disgrace. Vindictive schemers like Cato and Bibulus, the spineless Cicero, the avaricious Brutus. Even Pompey, Caesar’s former ally. But all have underestimated Caesar.

  ​ When the Senate refuse to give him his due he marches upon Rome, an army prepared to die for him at his back. Rome is his destiny – a destiny that will impel him to the banks of the Rubicon, and beyond, into legend.

  Caesar is available here.​

  Other titles in the series:

  The October Horse

  48–41 BC

  Anthony and Cleopatra

  41–27 BC

  ALSO BY COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

  Bittersweet

  From author of The Thorn Birds, one of the biggest-selling books of all time, comes this epic saga of love, betrayal, ambition and redemption in 1920s Australia.

  The four Latimer sisters are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit and ambition. They have always been close; always happy. They thought this would never change.

  But then they left home to train as nurses, swapping the feather beds of their father’s townhouse for the spartan bunks of nursing accommodation. And now, as the Depression casts its shadow across Australia, they must confront their own secret desires as the world changes around them. Will they find the independence they crave? Or is life – like love – always bittersweet?

  Bittersweet is available here.

  The Thorn Birds

  In the rugged Australian Outback, three generations of Cleary’s live through joy and sadness, bitter defeat and magnificent triumph. Driven by their dreams, sustained by remarkable strength of character… and torn by dark passions, violence and a scandalous family legacy of forbidden love.

  It is a poignant love story, a powerful epic of struggle and sacrifice, a celebration of individuality and spirit. Most of all, it is the story of the Clearys’ only daughter, Meggie, who can never possess the man she so desperately adores –Ralph de Bricassart. Ralph will rise from parish priest to the inner circles of the Vatican... but his passion for Meggie will follow him all the days of his life.

  The Thorn Birds is available here.

  Tim

  Forty-three-year-old Mary Horton lives in a quiet, middle-class suburb on Sydney’s North Shore. A straight-laced, emotionally distant spinster, Mary has worked hard to make a life for herself, but her idea of ‘life’ does not include personal relationships. With no partner and no friends, Mary has no plans to let anybody into her solitary life.

  Tim Melville is a twenty-five-year-old labourer with the body and face of a Greek god, but the mind of a child. A gentle outcast in a cruel, unbending world, Tim has a loving family, but is often derided and taken advantage of by his so-called friends.

  By chance, one summer morning Tim meets Mary and what begins as a day’s labour for the kind-hearted young man becomes a life-changing relationship for both of them.

  Tim is available here.

  An Indecent Obsession

  The Second World War has just ended and Sister Honour Langtree, a caring and conscientious Army nurse, cares for a striking mixture of five battle-broken soldiers being treated in the psychiatric care ward of a hospital in the South Pacific. To the soldiers, Honour is a precious, adored reminder of the world before war – they are as devoted to her as she is to them.

  Then Sergeant Michael Wilson arrives, disrupting her ward’s precarious harmony. A damaged and decorated hero, Wilson is a man of secrets and silent pain, and as Honour finds herself inexorably drawn to this tortured man, she discovers a love that will leave her torn between her duty to all her patients – and her love for one of them…

  An Indecent Obsession is available here.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH was born in Wellington, New South Wales. She established the department of neurophysiology at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, then worked as a researcher and teacher at Yale Medical School for ten years, where she wrote record-breaking international bestseller The Thorn Birds. She lives on Norfolk Island in the Pacific with her husband Ric Robinson.

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  First published in the UK in 1990 by Century

  This ebook edition first published in the UK in 2013 by Head of Zeus Ltd

  Copyright © Colleen McCullough, 1990

  The moral right of Colleen McCullough to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

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  Contents

  Cover

  Welcome Page

  Dedication

  A Note to the Reader Page

  List of Maps and Illustrations

  Maps

  Illustrations

  The Main Characters

  Caepio

  Caesar

  Cotta

  Decumius

  Drusus

  Glaucia

  Jugurtha

  Marius

  Metellus

  Rutilius Rufus

  Saturninus

  Scaurus

  Sertorius

  Sulla

  The First Year

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  The Second Year

  Chapter 1

  The Third Year

  Chapter 1

  The Fourth Year

  Chapter 1

  The Fifth Year

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  The Sixth Year

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  The Seventh Year

  The Eighth Year

  The Ninth Year

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  The Tenth Year

  The Eleventh Year

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Preview

  Author’s Note

  Glossary

  Pronunciation Guide to Roman Masculine Names

  Pronunciation Guide to Other Names and Terms

  About this Book

  Reviews

  About Masters of
Rome

  Also by Colleen McCullough

  About the Author

  An Invitation from the Publisher

  Copyright

 


 

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