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April Fool's Day by Bryce Courtenay
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Bryce Courtney's beloved son Damon, a haemophiliac, died from medically-acquired AIDS on Aprils Fool's day 1991, at the age of 24. In this book, he celebrates his life, but he condemns the medical approach taken towards AIDS, and how he and his family coped with Damon's haemophlia and early death.
April Fool's Day: Popular Penguins by Bryce Courtenay
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In the end, love is more important than everything and it will conquer and overcome anything. Or that's how Damon saw it, anyway. Damon wanted a book that talked a lot about love. Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering ...Show more
Fishing For Stars by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
Nick Duncan is a semi-retired, wealthy shipping magnate who lives in idyllic Beautiful Bay, Vanuatu, where he is known as the old patriarch of the islands. He is grieving the loss of his beguiling Eurasian true love, Anna, and is suffering for the first time from disturbing flashbacks to the Second Worl ...Show more
Fortune Cookie by Bryce Courtenay
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for an advertising agency. But the Wing brothers, who run the agency, are not what they seem. There is soon trouble when Simon falls in love with the forbidden Mercy B. Lord. With no family or connections, ...Show more
Four Fires by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
In a small town like any other small town around Australia live the Maloneys. They are a fifth-generation Australian family of Irish Catholic descent who are struggling to reach the first rung of the social ladder. The Maloneys are a family you won't forget: a strong mother, a father broken by war, thre ...Show more
Jack of Diamonds by Bryce Courtenay
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Bryce Courtenay's new - and final - book is also available as an eBook. If poker was an addiction then music was an overwhelming obsession; one could never replace the other in my life. During the Great Depression there was little hope for a boy born into the slums of Cabbagetown, Toronto. But Jack Spay ...Show more
Matthew Flinders' Cat by Bryce Courtenay
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
The story of a drunk, a boy and a cat >Billy O'Shannessy, once a prominent barrister, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench outside the State Library. Above him on the window sill rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old, a near-street kid heading for the ...Show more
Solomon's Song (Potato Factory #3) by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: POTATOE FACTORY
When Mary Abacus dies, she leaves her business empire in the hands of the warring Solomon family. Hawk Solomon is determined to bring together both sides of the tribe - but it is the new generation who must fight to change the future. Solomons are pitted against Solomons as the families are locked in a ...Show more
Tandia by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
Half-African, half-Indian and beautiful, Tandia is just a teenager when she is brutally attacked and violated by the South African police. Desperately afraid and consumed by hatred for the white man, Tandia seeks refuge in a brothel deep in the veld. There she learns to use her brilliant mind and extrao ...Show more
The Night Country by Bryce Courtenay
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
The Night Country is an enchanting and inspiring story from one of Australia's most popular authors, Bryce Courtenay, which draws on the author's childhood in Africa. Towards the end of the Great Depression a young boy goes with his sister to stay at a farm while their mother is ill. There, during a sco ...Show more
The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: POTATO FACTORY
Ikey Solomon's favourite saying is also his way of doing business. And in the business of thieving, he's very successful indeed. Ikey's partner in crime is his mistress, the forthright Mary Abacus, until misfortune befalls them. They are parted and each must make the harsh journey from thriving nineteen ...Show more
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: African Collection
First with your head and then with your heart.... So says Hoppie Groenewald, boxing champion, to a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world. For the young Peekay, it is a piece of advice he will carry with him throughout his life. Born in a South Africa divided by ra ...Show more