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Colleen McCullough

Colleen McCullough
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Colleen McCullough

Colleen McCullough, a native of Australia, established the department of neurophysiology at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney before working as a researcher at Yale Medical School for ten years. She is the bestselling author of numerous novels, including The Thorn Birds, and lives with her husband on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific.

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Sins of the Flesh will be released on November 12, 2013 in Hardcover, eBook
May 17, 2013
The Prodigal Son will be released on October 29, 2013 in Trade Paperback
May 14, 2013
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from The Touch
Apr 05, 2013
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from The October Horse
Dec 08, 2012
The Prodigal Son will be released on November 06, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
Nov 06, 2012
The Prodigal Son is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Nov 06, 2012
Naked Cruelty will be released on December 06, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Dec 06, 2011
Naked Cruelty is now available in Trade Paperback
Dec 06, 2011
On, Off is now available in Trade Paperback
Mar 05, 2011
On, Off will be released on March 05, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Mar 05, 2011
Naked Cruelty is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Dec 28, 2010
Naked Cruelty will be released on December 28, 2010 in Hardcover, eBook
Dec 28, 2010
Naked Cruelty will be released on December 28, 2010 in eBook
Dec 28, 2010
Naked Cruelty is now available in eBook
Dec 28, 2010
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Naked Cruelty
Dec 08, 2010
Too Many Murders will be released on October 19, 2010 in Trade Paperback
Oct 19, 2010

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AllAfrica.com, April 10, 2013
...me off my laurels to go in search of that 1977 bestseller, The Thorn Birds, a novel by Colleen McCullough that inspired the 1980s TV series by the same name. I remember watching the TV series in the 1990s and feeling an awful sadness for Meghann and...
USA Today, February 28, 2013
...remains unspoiled and breathtakingly beautiful. MORE FROM BOOKISH: MORE FROM BOOKISH: 3. The Thorn Birds Australian Outback: If Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds still brings to mind Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward hamming it up in the California...
TeleRead, February 18, 2013
...tried to find (because I actually am looking for an e-version of it) was Fortune’s Favorites by Colleen McCullough. It pulled up an out-of-stock audio version instead of the paperback, which is in stock on Amazon. So if I had “trusted” Bookish and...
Melbourne Age, February 16, 2013
...OK to be a woman of creative passion who did not fit the mould. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough As an adolescent, this book taught me about the tightrope walk of love and longing balanced with social taboos. It fed my appetite for books set within...
Examiner.com, January 26, 2013
...field of historical fiction as of late has been blossoming. From HBO's Rome to Starz' Spartacus to Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series, people are drawn to the drama and intrigue of...
Sydney Morning Herald, January 25, 2013
...director Gurinder Chadha added saris and Bollywood dance numbers in her 2004 musical, Bride and Prejudice. Australian author Colleen McCullough is one of many writers to attempt a sequel. The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet elevates the plain and...
SBWire, January 25, 2013
...life, and incorporates those into his work. He enjoys reading and has been inspired by the works of: Colleen McCullough, Steven Saylor, Agatha Christie, Robert Graves, Mercedes Lackey, C.S. Friedman, the biographies of Anthony Everitt, and the classical...
Equities.com, January 18, 2013
...true fans, sequels, retellings and travesties have mutated. In 1994, Emma Tennant produced An Unequal Marriage. In 2008, Colleen McCullough published The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet. Neither proved very pleasing, and last year, PD James wrote Death...
Abu Dhabi National, January 17, 2013
...true fans, sequels, retellings and travesties have mutated. In 1994, Emma Tennant produced An Unequal Marriage. In 2008, Colleen McCullough published The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet. Neither proved very pleasing, and last year, PD James wrote Death...
Yorkshire Post, December 31, 2012
...the country by his itinerant 60-something mother. Looking back at the play today, it is reminiscent of both Colleen McCullough’s Tim and Winston Groom’s Forrest Gump. As the adult with the mind of a nine-year-old, Kitson emerged as a performer of...
Newcastle Herald, December 28, 2012
...very seriously. Even after selling 7 million books worldwide - making her the highest-selling Australian author internationally since Colleen McCullough - Morton relies on instinct over marketing reports. That's why the 60,000 words had to be shelved. ...
Oak Ridger, December 20, 2012
...titles: Fiction — “Fox Tracks” (M), by Rita Mae Brown; “The Prodigal Son: a Carmine Delmonico Novel,” by Colleen McCullough; “The Bad Miss Bennett: a Pride and Prejudice Novel,” by Jean Burnett; “The Silent Sea: a Novel of the...
Oak Ridger, December 19, 2012
...titles: Fiction — “Fox Tracks” (M), by Rita Mae Brown; “The Prodigal Son: a Carmine Delmonico Novel,” by Colleen McCullough; “The Bad Miss Bennett: a Pride and Prejudice Novel,” by Jean Burnett; “The Silent Sea: a Novel of the...
Home News Tribune, December 15, 2012
...an art story, but paints a historical and political portrait of the Florentine Republic. THE PRODIGAL SON by Colleen McCullough (Simon & Schuster, $26) You look at this book and wonder if this was the same author who wrote The Thorn Birds. The answer...