Colleen McCullough

Aveline

Hmmmm. I'm not keen on post apocalyptic type novels. I find them unsettling and disturbing. The only one I enjoyed was the Hopkirk Manuscript by RC Sherriff and even then it kept me awake at night. I know. I'm a sissy!
I think I'm more comfortable reading about the past even the more immediate past.

Fair enough. I think Margaret Atwood would call them futuristic as she does with her Maddadam trilogy - when such things are a possibility - maybe not a new ice age in our lifetime but flooding could be.

McCullough also wrote seven long Roman novels which I have - picked up as a job lot in a charity shop - but haven't yet read. More up your street?

Aveline

I'm reading 'Tim' right now Yammy! That's one of the reasons I posted. It's charming and so well judged. Also it's so easy to visualise..

See if you can see the film somewhere it's a really good adaptation of the book. Mel Gibson to die for about the time when he made Gallipoli or Mutiny on the Bounty. I'm glad you are enjoying the book. I got started reading her books years ago as we had a reli in Queensland who recommended the Thorn Birds.

Hmmmm. I'm not keen on post apocalyptic type novels. I find them unsettling and disturbing. The only one I enjoyed was the Hopkirk Manuscript by RC Sherriff and even then it kept me awake at night. I know. I'm a sissy!
I think I'm more comfortable reading about the past even the more immediate past.

If you do read it you might want to try Sarah Hall's Carhullan Army alongside. Both deal with similar themes of catastrophic climate change. In Creed, it's a new ice age covering the whole of Canada and the northern USA. In Carhullan it's a rise of sea levels flooding the South of England. Populations must cram into what is left of habitable land. Extreme measures are taken to manage and control those populations and out of these emerge new leaders to take control and forge a new future. Futuristic stories ... or maybe not so.

I know what you mean. The ideas tend to flow at bedtime. My mind is in overdrive but I am too physically tired to jot down more than a few words. Next day, I struggle to articulate what I want to say when it all seemed so clear one sleep ago.

Thanks. Sounds like another one for me to seek out.
She was very prolific. I find writing to be quite hard work. Sometimes stories feel like I'm dragging out the words one by one. Other times, rare times, it just flows.

A long time ago now, possibly thirty years, I remember being rivetted by A Creed for the Third Millennium.

I'm reading 'Tim' right now Yammy! That's one of the reasons I posted. It's charming and so well judged. Also it's so easy to visualise..

I didn’t know ‘Tim’ was a book Yammy. I’ve seen the film a couple of times.

I agree, she is a wonderful writer. I haven't read anything of hers recently. Not sure if she is still writing, or even alive. -
- Just googled her, sadly she died a few years ago.

Give "Tim" a try one I think of her lesser known. There,s a film of it with a very young Mel Gibson.