Her black-patent leather shoes have fake leopard-skin trim. McCullough has hair that seems to march to its own brush. “I mean, I’m hopeless,” she pronounced, plopping herself down in a chair in her hotel suite here.
No two of her books are in the same genre, she explained. But, she said, “I had always wanted to do a really fat historical novel.” It probably would have been easier, and undoubtedly less risky, to write a sequel to “The Thorn Birds,” McCullough’s best-selling contemporary family saga of 1977. The research took 13 years-”10 years of dabbling and three years of sitting down and doing nothing else.” Their names and the places they live and visit are so complicated that McCullough has included a 15-page glossary. Men and women run around in togas in McCullough’s new novel.
14, and on Sunday moved on to the New York Times national best-seller list. 1, arrived on the Los Angeles Times best-seller list on Oct. The debut novel in the series, “The First Man in Rome” (William Morrow & Co., $22.95), was published Oct. So there on Norfolk Island, not far from where the mutiny on the Bounty took place, McCullough crafted new heroes to fill six volumes of fiction about life in republican Rome.
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