Fosters - Australian for Beer, McCullough- New South Walesian for Literature

Two of my favorite authors are Morris West - The Shoes of the Fisherman, et seq - and Colleen McCullough who had many of her books made into big- and small- screen productions. For example:
    * Tim - movie,  1979 with Mel Gibson and Piper Laurie
    * The Thorn Birds - TV miniseries, 1983 with Richard Chamberlain
    * An Indecent Obsession -  movie in 1985 starring Gary Sweet
    *  Rome - miniseries HBO. With Kevin McKidd
I’m currently reading the books in the Masters of Rome series, and after two of them, have gotten bilateral hernias, or in my case his-nias: we would sell these by the pound, as they run to over 700 pages each, and definitely not Stephen King writing. One has to READ these books, not just skim ‘em.  One of the advantages of reading books like this is that they lead you to others. In my case, I’m actually reading the 1st Century A.D. historian Suetonius’ The Twelve Caesars,

The novels in the McCullough series are

   * The First Man in Rome (1990); spanning the years 110–100 BC
   *  The Grass Crown (1991); spanning the years 97–86 BC
   *  Fortune's Favorites (1993); spanning the years 83–69 BC
   *  Caesar's Women (1997); spanning the years 67–59 BC
   *  Caesar (1998); spanning the years 54–48 BC
   *  The October Horse (2002); spanning the years 48–41 BC and
   * Antony and Cleopatra (2007); spanning the years 41–27 BC