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The thorn birds mass market paperback 1979 by colleen mccullough author. Colleen mccullough books list of books by author colleen. Free download or read online the thorn birds pdf epub book. Colleen mccullough, australian novelist who worked in a range of genres but was best known for her second novel, the sweeping romance the thorn birds 1977. Colleen mccullough was born on june 1, 1937 in wellington, new south wales, australia as colleen margaretta mccullough. Colleen mccullough holds her international bestseller the thorn birds in sydney in 1977. The widower of australian author colleen mccullough has been granted control of her multimillion dollar estate after a bitter court dispute. Colleen mccullough s estate to go under the hammer. Colleen mccullough has 90 books on goodreads with 586881 ratings. Pdf the thorn birds book by colleen mccullough free. Jan 30, 2015 colleen mccullough, a former neurophysiological researcher at yale who, deciding to write novels in her spare time, produced the thorn birds, a multigenerational australian romance that. She flourished at catholic schools and earned a physiology degree from the university of new south wales in 1963. Publication of the thorn birds, her second novel, in 1977, saw the end of her scientific career. Mccullough did not set out to be an author, much less one of the biggest selling australian authors, although her works would range from the megaseller epic the thorn birds to.