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	Barnes & Noble.com - Fortune's Favorites (Masters of Rome Series #3) - Colleen McCullough - Mass Market ...
		The third installment in McCullough's magnum opus (after The First Man in Rome, LJ 9/15/90, and The Grass Crown, Morrow, 1991) continues her chronicle of the decline of the Roman Republic and the impending rise of the Roman Empire.
		As McCullough relates each and every historical event of import in her tireless sweep, she embellishes fact with dozens of anecdotes and quickly rendered scenes of intrigue, political maneuvering, grandstanding, gossip, sex both affectionate and calculated, and wholesale slaughter.
		McCullough's latest saga is the strongest of the stories in her trilogy of ancient Roman days.
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	Books and Writing - 06/11/2005: Colleen McCullough
		Colleen McCullough was born in western NSW in 1937.
		Colleen McCullough: That is the true test of a good whodunit, is to have the reader guessing all the way though, and then wind up not realising who it is and when they find out who it is, suddenly they go, ‘of course’, because the clues were there—but it’s how to hide them.
		Colleen McCullough: Everybody has a secret, but the thing is that the secrets quite often sound or appear weirder than they actually are when you find out what the secrets are, and that’s the wholeit’s all part of the art of making each character a likely suspect, which you have to do.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/bwriting/stories/s1495985.htm (2944 words)

	Colleen McCullough on critics, sex and her new novel :: ABC South West WA
		Colleen McCullough has just published her 17th novel, or her third, depending upon which way you look at it.
		If Colleen McCullough is a good critic of her own work, she is dismissive of the role of professional literary reviewers.
		Colleen felt that the story would appeal to women and is pleasantly surprised by the positive response of men.
	www.abc.net.au /southwestwa/stories/s1250517.htm (748 words)

	Masters of Rome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Masters of Rome is a series of historical fiction novels by author Colleen McCullough (b.
		McCullough had decided to end the series with The October Horse because in her opinion the definite fall of the Roman Republic takes place after the Battle of Philippi when Caesar's murderers are killed.
		On Colleen McCullough's conversation with Bob Carr at the Sydney Writer's Festival, 2004: [1]
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Masters_of_Rome (425 words)

	Chat transcript: Australian author Colleen McCullough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Colleen McCollough says: I moved to Norfolk Island 20 years ago from the USA because the very few remaining members of my family were growing old and I wanted to be closer to them than the east coast of the USA.
		Colleen McCollough says: I love doing the research and I like my facts to be correct provided that I am writing fiction, there is still plenty of room for a writer to use her imagination.
		Colleen McCollough says: I'm the patron of the Gerontology Foundation of Australia and it is concerned with the aged, what we aim to do is to fund research into the physical and social problems of the old.
	aca.ninemsn.com.au /stories/114.asp (2676 words)

	Ode To Colleen Mccullough - Ancient Roman Empire Forums
		Colleen McCullough's books The First Man in Rome, The Grass Crown, Fortunes Favorite, The Women of Caesar, Caesar, and the October Horse are some of the most intriging and detailed roman books i have found.
		Still McCullough does treat him with a bit of hero worship, but thats offset by the accuracy and the proper context in which she includes known historical events.
		McCullough clearly did a great deal of homework on Roman social life, and she did a good job of bringing Rome back to us.
	www.unrv.com /forum/index.php?act=ST&f=10&t=985& (1499 words)

	BOOKORPHANAGE BOOKS
		Born during the Depression to itinerant parents working in rural Australia, Colleen was 'brainy, bossy and big', and often clashed with her mother.
		Colleen studied neurophysiology (the electrical behavior of the nervous system), and after graduation, set up the Department of Neurophysiology at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital.
		Doctors told Colleen McCullough in 2004 that she suffered from macular degeneration, an irreversible condition that destroys the eye's retina.
	www.bookorphanage.com /colleen.html (767 words)

	The First Man In Rome - Colleen McCullough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		McCullough isn't just swapping in an exotic backdrop for a romantic melodrama though - she knows her history inside out and is writing a much more ambitious novel than I had expected.
		This is particularly evident in some of the side-plots, where McCullough introduces some plausible invention of her own to add some romantic tension to the macho mix of politics and war.
		In terms of mastering her material and marshalling it into a novel, McCullough is right up there with Graves, Renault or Massie, but she lacks their skill in abstracting an essential human story from the material and telling it with a sharper edge than any mere history can.
	www.dkennedy.org /C2025243227/E1204627358 (807 words)

	BookPage Review: Caesar's Women
		For those whose knowledge of Julius Caesar is limited to fuzzy remembrances of the play by Shakespeare, Colleen McCullough's full-scale portrait of the Roman emperor will be a delight and a revelation-ambitious, thoughtful, cold, passionate, resourceful, reckless, and thoroughly believable.
		McCullough is at her best in dramatizing, through crisp dialogue and action, the complicated and involuted power plays between Caesar and his Senate rivals--Bibulus, Cato, and Cicero.
		McCullough presents it all: intrigues, infidelities, discreet liaisons, marriages for power or position and concomitant divorces to achieve that same power or position.
	www.bookpage.com /9602bp/fiction/caesarswomen.html (556 words)

	Colleen McCullough Tribute Page
		Colleen introduces the antecedents of Caesars implacable enemies a faction known as the boni an archconservative faction that are committed to oppose Caesar in any endeavour and in their fanaticism set the wheels of fate in motion.
		Though not a great stylist Colleen's crisp descriptions of all her character completely in tune with Roman society and the many tones of irony and farce she utilises are very effective and entertaining.
		An interesting addition to the narrative form Colleen's illustrations; Drawings of busts or sometimes coins as is the case with Vercingetorix of the key characters in the novels.
	home.casema.nl /sheersink/colle.htm (519 words)

	Patron - Dr Colleen McCullough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Colleen McCullough recently wrote to the Foundation saying "It is with a heavy heart that I write to you to resign forthwith as Patron to the MD Foundation.
		The Foundation will be ever grateful for Colleen's contribution and she will always be valued and cherished friend of the Foundation." - Leslie Lofthouse, Chairman.
		Dr Colleen McCullough is an internationally renowned author.
	www.mdfoundation.com.au /corporate/Patron.htm (390 words)

	Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough - Book Reviews & Book Jacket Summary
		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.
		In her bloated and, sad to say, boring new book, McCullough (Caesar: Let the Dice Fly) turns her usually fine historical eye to the Pacific Ocean and the founding of Australia in the late 18th century.
		McCullough's narrative skills are fully displayed in this intricately researched, passionate epic of 18th-century England's colonization of Australia...
	www.bookbrowse.com /reviews/index.cfm?book_number=625 (570 words)

	Amazon.ca: Fortune's Favorites: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As McCullough mentions, she has far more historical sources to work with now, and indeed the two new heroes were master propagandists.
		While McCullough's prose is skillful it does not soar, and the reader does need to work hard to keep track of the parallel stories taking place on a jiggered timeline in Italy, Spain, or Anatolia.
		McCullough's steadfast focus is elite politics and strategy: no vignettes of life in the legions, among the urban plebs, or on Latin farms.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0380710838 (734 words)

	eBay - Book: Caesar (ISBN: 0688093728) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The fifth volume of McCullough's continuing saga of the history of Rome meets the stellar standards she has set in her earlier books (e.g., Caesar's Women, LJ 12/95).
		McCullough clearly loves her subject and has done voluminous research, smoothly interweaving the vast number of facts into the narrative.
		Around these military events, McCullough constructs various synchronous plot lines, including the political machinations of the Roman senate, the complex entanglements (romantic and otherwise) of key Roman families and life in the Egyptian court of Queen Cleopatra.
	product.ebay.com /Caesar_ISBN_0688093728_W0QQfvcsZ2178QQsoprZ648573 (752 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Morgan's Run
		Australian author Colleen McCullough is probably best known for her beloved bestseller, The Thorn Birds.
		A man of quiet strength and strong moral convictions, Richard Morgan is one of Colleen McCullough's most compelling characters.
		In her author's notes, McCullough explains that the real Richard Morgan is the four-times great-grandfather of her husband, and that she found his story fascinating.
	www.bookpage.com /0009bp/fiction/morgans_run.html (398 words)

	Thorn Brids, The
		The miniseries The Thorn Birds, based on Colleen McCullough's 1977 best selling novel, was broadcast on ABC for 10 hours between 27 and 30 March 1983.
		Set primarily on Drogheda, a fictional sheep station in the Australian outback, the melodrama focused on the multi-generational Cleary family, and spanned the years 1920-1962.
		As in McCullough's novel, the key underlying message of this miniseries was that each generation is doomed to repeat the missteps and failures of the previous generation.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/T/htmlT/thornbirds/thornbirds.htm (730 words)

	Colleen McCullough — www.greenwood.com
		Description: Although best known for The Thorn Birds, her blockbuster family saga set in her native Australia, Colleen McCullough is a versatile novelist who has written in a variety of genres.
		DeMarr discusses, analyzes, and evaluates each of McCullough's eight novels in turn, relates it to the genre to which it belongs, and compares it to her other work.
		She also compares McCullough's novels of ideas (A Creed for the Third Millennium and the three recent historical novels set in ancient Rome, "The Masters of Rome" series).
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GR9499.aspx (331 words)

	Gaius Julius Caesar
		Although I am fascinated by ancient Egypt, I became totally entranced by ancient Rome after reading the "Masters of Rome" series of novels by Colleen McCullough and in particular the life of Julius Caesar.
		McCullough's novels, "The First Man In Rome", "The Grass Crown", "Fortune's Favorites", "Caesar's Women", and "Caesar", made this complex personality come to life.
		He was not the cold and calculating tyrannical conqueror often depicted by various historians apparently with their own political axes to grind.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~mharrsch/caesar (1645 words)

	Colleen McCullough - interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Colleen McCullough has never been one to follow the pack and almost 30 years after her best seller The Thorn Birds was published, she has returned to mainstream popular fiction.
		With a rich cast of characters, it is a story of love and passion set against the harsh and brutal world of emerging modern Australia.
		Not a fan of sex scenes, McCullough says that when things get a bit raunchy in print or on film she will turn the page or skip the DVD to the next scene.
	www.theblurb.com.au /Issue36/McCullough.htm (863 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Colleen McCullough - Books: Meet the Writers
		With an undeniable talent for evoking the past, Australian author Colleen McCullough has written popular novels -- such as The Thorn Birds, Morgan's Run, and her Masters of Rome series -- that go beyond the conventions of romance or historical drama but contain elements of both.
		Her first work to garner mainstream acclaim, The Thorn Birds was later developed into a 10-hour television miniseries featuring Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward in the lead roles.
		McCullough's heavily researched, engagingly written Masters of Rome series brings the evolution of the ancient empire to life.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=968069 (146 words)

	Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough Detailed Book Review
		The facts and events involving Morgan are claimed to be true, with the novelist's literary license being used to fill in gaps and round out the story.
		McCullough's description of eighteenth century British justice in England is harsh and unjust.
		Colleen McCullough's account of the First Fleet transportation of convicts from Britain to New South Wales (Australia) is lengthy.
	www.allreaders.com /Topics/info_14835.asp (796 words)

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		TickledOrange BookLog - The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
		The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (December 18, 2004 - January 12, 2005)
		This is an epic tale of the Cleary family, headed by Padraic “Paddy” Cleary, who move from New Zealand to work at his elder sister’s sheering ranch, Drogheda, in Australia.
	www.tickledorange.com /BookLog/Books/TheThornBirds.html (474 words)

	The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		# re: The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough 11/14/2005 2:00 PM Vixz
		This one has so much emotion in it......if i got it right, bcos each poet has a different emotion and reaction to a poem...LOL...all i can say is this one was superb, Dark angel I think i should thank you for sharing this one with all of us
		# re: The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough 11/8/2005 9:28 PM techj
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	Caesar: A Novel by Colleen McCullough from HarperCollins Publishers
		Whereas here was all wind and blowing sand, strappy grasses plastered against the dunes, the thin wild keening of a thousand thousand gulls.
		The foregoing is excerpted from Caesar by Colleen McCullough.
		Colleen McCullough's sweeping saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback has enthralled readers the world over.
	www.harpercollins.com /global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060510854&tc=cx (999 words)

	Amazon.ca: The First Man in Rome: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This big, complex novel detailing the beginnings of the downfall of the Roman Republic is a startling change of pace for McCullough (The Thorn Birds, LJ 5/1/77).
		Gaius Marius, an upstart New Man from the Italian provinces, and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a patrician Roman brought up in the slums of the Subura, are both ambitious enough to want to become First Man in Rome, despite their social handicaps.
		I love historical fiction and am a student of Roman history, so one would think that this book was tailor-made for me. I had previously read Colleen McCollough's "Caesar" several years ago and had had mixed feelings on it.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0380710811 (571 words)

	October Horse, The : A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra : Colleen McCullough
		October Horse, The : A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra : Colleen McCullough
		The final book in her series about the men who established Rome of the Emperors, The October Horse features Gaius Julius Caesar at the height of his stupendous career.
		Packed with battles, intrigue, love affairs, and murders, The October Horse hurtles toward the assassination, and onto the dangerous consequences of that act -- in which the very fate of Rome is at stake.
	www.audiobooksonline.com /shopsite/0743528182.html (296 words)

	Thorn Birds, the - Colleen McCullough - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Thorn Birds, the - Colleen McCullough : Eileen McCullough-Books
		Having read McCulloughs first novel,The Thorn Birds,I did read several subsequent books which did not surpass her first.Maybe because the Thorn Birds was so good and riveting I was always looking for her ultimate triumph.
		Thorn Birds is set in Australia in the early part of the century,and follows a familys disasters and triumphs.Nothing...
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/thorn-birds-the-colleen-mccullough (184 words)

	Blogcritics.org: The October Horse - Colleen McCullough
		The October Horse is the latest and last in an epic series chronicling the end of the Roman Republic and the beginnings of the Roman Empire.
		McCullough's Rome is not the Rome you typically find in historical fiction.
		It is personality that drives McCullough's vision of Rome and the Romans within.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2003/04/17/104008.php (734 words)

	BookLoons Reviews - Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough
		The research that went into the making of this book is phenomenal.
		McCullough writes as though she were living this story and she manages without apparent effort to drop the reader right into the center of the action and the thoughts of the well-fleshed out characters.
		Richard Morgan, a real person, comes across as an upright and honorable man who is not beaten by his ordeal and lives to start a new life, and a dynasty that lives on today.
	www.bookloons.com /cgi-bin/Review.ASP?bookid=530 (434 words)

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