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Bryce Courtenay (born 14 August 1933) is a South African-born Australian novelist born in Johannesburg. He spent most of his early years in a small village in the Lebombo Mountains in South Africa's Limpopo province.
His novels are primarily set in either Australia, his adopted country, or South Africa, the country of his birth. His first book, The Power of One, was published in 1989 and, despite Courtenay's fears that it would never sell, quickly became one of Australia's best-selling books by any living author. The story has since been made into a film - as well as being re-released in a version fit for children to read. Bryce Courtenay is one of Australia's most commercially successful authors. However, only The Power of One has been published in the United States. Courtenay claims that this is because "American publishers for the most part have difficulties about Australia, they are interested in books in their own country first and foremost. However, we receive many e-mails and letters from Americans who have read my books and I am hoping in the future that publishers will recognize that there is a market for all my books in the U.S."
He came to Australia after being banned from returning to South Africa for starting a weekend school at the prestigious boys school he attended. He had met Benita (whom he later married and has three children with), who invited him to come to Australia, which he did, and has lived there ever since. Bryce Courtenay now lives in Bowral, NSW, with his partner, Christine.

Available Books by Bryce Courtenay

	Sylvia Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780670071227 ~~RRP: $32.95~~ QBD: $14.99 "I am Sylvia Honeyeater; I think myself born around 1196, and this is the story of my life. I am cursed by folk as an optimist and a dreamer, which is a dangerous combination . . . " Sylvia is a story of the Children's Crusade, which occurred in the year 1212. It is perhaps the strangest true event to have taken place in European history. I enjoyed the digging that uncovered it - buri...
	Whitethorn: A Novel Of Africa Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780670070411 ~~RRP: $32.95~~ QBD: $14.99 From Bryce Courtenay comes a new and powerful novel set in Africa. It's 1939: the world is on the brink of war. The rumbles of change reach the remote mountains where young Tom Fitzsaxby is working through some tough life lessons. Like the whitethorn, one of Africa's most enduring plants, Tom is learning to survive and even flourish against the harshest of odds. When a terrible event set...
	Fortune Cookie Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143205616 RRP: $24.95 Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for Samuel Oswald Wing, 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, the illegitimate daughter of a Japanese officer and a Chinese mother who abandoned her on the doorstep of ...
	Popular Penguins: April Fool's Day Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143566564 RRP: $9.95 Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering behind this young man's life. Damon's story is one of lifelong struggle, his love for Celeste, the compassion of family, and a fight to the end for integrity....
	The Story of Danny Dunn Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143203513 RRP: $24.95 In the aftermath of the Great Depression few opportunities existed for working-class boys, but at just eighteen Danny Dunn has everything going for him: brain, looks, sporting ability - and an easy charm. His parents run The Hero, a neighbourhood pub, and Danny is a local hero. Luck changes for Danny when he signs up to go to war. He returns home a physically broken man, to a life that will be ch...
	Fortune Cookie Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670074082 RRP: $49.95 It's the 1960s and the world of advertising is coming alive - and it's an exciting world to be part of. Simon Wong, a Chinese-Australian and promising young advertising executive, is sent to Singapore to establish an office. He finds himself thrust into an environment that is at once strangely familiar and profoundly different; one where the rules that govern behaviour - both in business a...
	The Story of Danny Dunn Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780670074204 RRP: $32.95 In the aftermath of the Great Depression few opportunities existed for working-class boys, but at just eighteen Danny Dunn has a good deal going for him: brains, looks, sporting ability - and an easy charm. His parents run The Hero, a favourite neighbourhood pub, and Danny is a local hero. Luck changes for Danny when he signs up to go to war. He returns home a physically broken man, to a life tha...
	Popular Penguins: The Power of One Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143204794 RRP: $9.95 First with your head and then with your heart . . . To Peekay, a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world, this is a piece of advice that he will carry with him throughout his life. Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, this one small boy will come to lead all the tribes of Africa. And in a final conflict with his childhood enemy, the Judge, Pe...
	April Fool's Day Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143004608 RRP: $26.95 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 behind this young man's life. Damon's story is one of lifelong struggle, his l...
	Brother Fish Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143002703 RRP: $24.95 'Brother Fish' is an Australian saga spanning eighty years and four continents. Inspired by real events, Bryce Courtenay's new novel tells the story of three people from vastly differing backgrounds. All they have in common is a tough beginning in life. Jack McKenzie is a harmonica player, soldier, dreamer and small-time professional fisherman from a tiny island in Bass Strait. Nicol...
	Four Fires Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143004622 RRP: $26.95 In the small town of Yankalillee, the Maloneys were at the very bottom of the pecking order. Had been for generations, with firm predictions that they'd stay there forever . . . 1955. Tommy, unlike other fathers, never talked about the war, not even on Anzac Day, but it broke his spirit, good and proper. So it was up to his big, booming wife Nancy to bring up the five children - Sarah, Boz...
	Jessica Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143004615 RRP: $24.95 'Jessica' is based on the inspiring true story of a young girl's fight for justice against tremendous odds. A tomboy, Jessica is the pride of her father, as they work together on the struggling family farm. One quiet day, the peace of the bush is devastated by a terrible murder. Only Jessica is able to save the killer from the lynch mob - but will justice prevail in the courts? Nin...
	Matthew Flinders' Cat Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143004639 RRP: $24.95 This is the story of a drunk, a boy and a cat. Billy O'Shannessy, once prominent in law circles, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench underneath a window of the State Library on the sill of which rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old, a near street kid heading for all the usual trouble and whose mother is a heroin addict. The two meet an...
	Night Country Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670878994 RRP: $29.95 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 scorching African summer, he witnesses a trial and punishment which will forever remind him...
	Persimmon Tree Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143007005 RRP: $24.95 The persimmon tree is a symbol of life, a heartwood that will outlast everything man can make . . . It is 1942 in the Dutch East Indies, and Nick Duncan is a young Australian butterfly collector in search of a single exotic butterfly. With invading Japanese forces coming closer by the day, Nick falls in love with the beguiling Anna van Heerden. Their time together is brief, as both are forced in...
	Potato Factory Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143004561 RRP: $24.95 "Always leave a little salt on the bread . . ." 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 nineteenth-century London to the co...
	Power Of One Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143004554 RRP: $24.95 "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 racism and hatred, this one small boy will come to lead all the tribes of Africa. ...
	Solomon's Song Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143004585 RRP: $24.95 This is the story of two families - branches of the Solomons - transported to an alien land, both of whom eventually grow rich and powerful but who, through three generations, never for one moment relinquish their hatred for each other. It is also the story of Australia from the beginning until Australia came of age as a nation....
	Sylvia Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143006992 RRP: $24.95 'I am Sylvia Honeyeater; I think myself born around 1196, and this is the story of my life.' From master storyteller Bryce Courtenay comes the colourful epic of Sylvia. Late twelfth-century Europe is torn by religious intolerance. Sylvia, with a singing voice that can literally charm the birds out of the trees, and an acute and questioning mind that refuses to accept unreasoned beliefs, e...
	Tandia Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143004547 RRP: $24.95 Tandia is a child of all Africa: half Indian, half African, beautiful and intelligent, she is only sixteen when she is first brutalised by the police. Her fear of the white man leads her to join the black resistance movement, where she trains as a terrorist. With her in the fight for justice is the one white man Tandia can trust, the welterweight champion of the world, Peekay. Now he must fight th...
	Tommo and Hawk Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143004578 RRP: $24.95 Join Australia's master storyteller, Bryce Courtenay, on the sweeping adventures of twin brothers Tommo and Hawk Solomon. Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of 15 in Hobart Town. Together, they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood. From whale hunting in the Pacific to the Maori wars of New Zealand, from the Rocks ...
	Whitethorn: A Novel Of Africa Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143004844 RRP: $24.95 From Bryce Courtenay comes a new novel about Africa. The time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people frantically opposed to the English. The world is also on the brink of war and South Africa elects to fight for the Allied cause against Germany. Six-year-old Tom Fitzsaxby finds himself in The Boys Farm, an orphanage in a remote town in the high mo...
	Fishing for Stars Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143011347 RRP: $24.95 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 World War. So he puts pen to paper and tells the compelling tale of the life he has live...
	The Story of Danny Dunn Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670073344 RRP: $49.95 In the late1930s in the aftermath of the Great Depression few opportunities existed for working-class boys, but at just eighteen Danny Dunn has a bit going for him: brains, looks, sporting ability- and an easy charm. His parents run The Hero, a favourite neighbourhood pub, and Danny is seen as that rare exception, a working class boy going places. War intervenes and he is captured at the Fall of ...
	A Recipe For Dreaming Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670028689 RRP: $24.95 'A Recipe For Dreaming' is a little treasure of wise words and beautiful images. With insight, humour and a deep sense of humanity, Bryce Courtenay inspires us to become dreamers and questioners, creators of lives that are rich and rewarding. Illuminating these musings are the superb visual poems of Anie Williams. ...
	Sylvia Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670070268 RRP: $49.95 From master storyteller Bryce Courtenay comes a colourful, lusty story set in the thirteenth century. The story of Sylvia Honeyeater, who sings like an angel and can literally charm the birds from the trees, this epic tale of a Europe torn by religious intolerance also features the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Francis of Assisi, the Muslim Sultan and his harem, as well as the fervour that became the Ch...
	Smoky Joe's Cafe Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143004738 RRP: $19.95 Thommo returns from Vietnam to an Australia that regards him as a mercenary guilty of war crimes. He begins to develop all kinds of physical and mental problems, and thinks it must only be him until he finds he is not alone. Ten mates, all who remain of his platoon who fought and died in the Battle of Long Tan, are affected the same way. Now Thommo and his mates are eleven angry men out for reven...
	The Family Frying Pan Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143004592 RRP: $24.95 Mrs Moses is a small woman with a big heart and enormous courage. The only survivor of a Cossack raid on her village, she takes with her a big cast-iron frying pan, so heavy that she can only sling it over her back. Yet this is no ordinary frying pan - it's The Family Frying Pan, blessed with a Russian soul. From this frying pan Mrs Moses manages to feed the various refugees who are travell...
	Solomon's Song Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670878789 RRP: $45.00 This is the story of two families - branches of the Solomons - transported to an alien land, both of whom eventually grow rich and powerful but who, through three generations, never for one moment relinquish their hatred for each other. It is also the story of Australia from the beginning until Australia came of age as a nation....
	The Power of One; Young Readers' Edition Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780141304892 RRP: $19.95 This is Bryce Courtenay's classic best-selling story of the triumph of the human spirit, specially adapted for young readers. Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, little six-year-old Peekay learns that small can beat big and that the most important thing is the power of one: the force for good within each individual....

	The Power of One Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780440239130 RRP: $8.95 Growing up in South Africa during the apartheid era, young Peekay understood at an early age that learning English well would be an asset in his later years and so, despite growing up to be the welterweight champion of the world, used the power of his words to make the changes he deemed important when just the right moment presented itself. Reprint....
	The Power of One Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780345410054 RRP: $17.95 ...
	Fishing for Stars Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781552788066 RRP: $69.95 ...
	The Persimmon Tree Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781552787434 RRP: $69.95 ...

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	A Recipe for Dreaming Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670879847 A Recipe for Dreaming is a collection of thoughts and images to make you dream again. Bryce Courtenay's reflections on how essential it is to daydream, and to question, whether it be yourself or the world, provide a challenging and inspiring personal vision. Ann Williams brings the reflections to life with her vivid and incisive illustrations....
	April Fool's Day Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140272567 April Fool's Day is controversial, painful and heartbreaking, yet has a gentle humour. It is also life-affirming, and, above alll, a testimony to the incredible regenerative strength of love - how when we confront our worst, we can become our best. April Fool's Day will change the way you think....
	April Fool's Day Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140272932 This is the moving story of the author's son Damon, who died on the morning of April Fool's Day, and his battle with haemophilia and AIDS. Told from the perspectives of the author, Damon, Damon's mother and his partner, Celeste, this haunting story of love and sadness is one you will remember. 'April Fool's Day' is controversial, painful and heartbreaking, yet has a gentle...
	Brother Fish Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780670029112 'Brother Fish' is an Australian saga spanning eighty years and four continents. Inspired by real events, Bryce Courtenay's new novel tells the story of three people from vastly differing backgrounds. All they have in common is a tough beginning in life. Jack McKenzie is a harmonica player, solider, dreamer and small-time professional fisherman from a tiny island in Bass Strait. Nico...
	Brother Fish Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670042081 Brother Fish is an Australian saga spanning eighty years and four continents. Inspired by real events, Bryce Courtenay's new novel tells the story of three people from vastly differing backgrounds. All they have in common is a tough beginning in life. Jack McKenzie is a harmonica player, solider, dreamer and small-time professional fisherman from a tiny island in Bass Strait. Nicole Lenoir-J...
	Bryce Courtenay: The Australian Trilogy Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670893898 'The Potato Factory', 'Tommo & Hawk', and 'Solomon's Song'. These three books are presented together for the first time in this special collector's edition. 'The Potato Factory' Ikey Solomon and his partner in crime, Mary Abacus, each must make the harsh journey from thriving nineteenth-century London to the convict settlement of Van Diemen's Land....
	Fishing for Stars Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780670072750 Nick Duncan is a semi-retires, wealthy shipping magnate who live in idyllic Beautiful Bay, Vanuatu, where he is known as the old patriarch of the islands. He is grieving the loss of his Eurasian true love, Anna, and is suffering for the first time from disturbing flashbacks to the Second World War. So he puts pen to paper and tells the compelling tale of the life he has lived since his war-hero ...
	Fortune Cookie Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780670074907 Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for Samuel Oswald Wing, 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, the illegitimate daughter of a Japanese officer and a Chinese mother who abandoned her on the doorstep of ...
	Four Fires Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143000969 In the small town of Yankalillee, the Maloneys were at the very bottom of the pecking order. Had been for generations, with firm predictions that they'd stay there forever . . . 1955. Tommy, unlike other fathers, never talked about the war, not even on Anzac Day, but it broke his spirit, good and proper. So it was up to his big, booming wife Nancy to bring up the five children - Sarah, Boz...
	Four Fires Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670910625 In the small town of Yankalillee, the Maloneys were at the very bottom of the pecking order. Had been for generations, with firm predictions that they'd stay there forever . . . 1955. Tommy, unlike other fathers, never talked about the war, not even on Anzac Day, but it broke his spirit, good and proper. So it was up to his big, booming wife Nancy to bring up the five children - Sarah, Boz...
	Jack of Diamonds Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670076079 ...
	Jessica Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140279603 'Jessica' is based on the inspiring true story of a young girl's fight for justice against tremendous odds. A tomboy, Jessica is the pride of her father, as they work together on the struggling family farm. One quiet day, the peace of the bush is devastated by a terrible murder. Only Jessica is able to save the killer from the lynch mob - but will justice prevail in the courts? Nin...
	Jessica Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670883516 Jessica is the story of a remarkable young Australian woman who defied the conventions of her time. She had a stubborn streak and the courage to act out her convictions, in spite of the consequences. Jessica is a tomboy, the pride of her father, as she grows up on their farm. One quiet day, the peace of the bush is shattered by a terrible murder. Only Jessica is able to save the killer from the ly...
	Jessica: Movie Tie-In Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143002390 A moving tale of love and murder, 'Jessica' is based on the inspiring true story of a young girl's fight for justice against tremendous odds. A tomboy, Jessica is the pride of her father, as they work together on the struggling family farm. One quiet day, the peace of the bush is devastated by a terrible murder. Only Jessica is able to save the killer from the lynch mob - but will just...
	Matthew Flinders' Cat Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143000983 This is the story of a drunk, a boy and a cat. Billy O'Shannessy, once prominent in law circles, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench underneath a window of the State Library on the sill of which rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old, a near street kid heading for all the usual trouble and whose mother is a heroin addict. The two meet an...
	Matthew Flinders' Cat Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780670041312 This is the story of a drunk, a boy and a cat. Billy O'Shannessy, once prominent in law circles, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench underneath a window of the State Library on the sill of which rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old, a near street kid heading for all the usual trouble and whose mother is a heroin addict. The two meet an...
	Matthew Flinders' Cat Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670910618 This is the story of a drunk, a boy and a cat. Billy O'Shannessy, once prominent in law circles, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench underneath a window of the State Library on the sill of which rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old, a near street kid heading for all the usual trouble and whose mother is a heroin addict. The two meet an...
	Slipcase Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781863306041 ...
	Smoky Joe's Cafe Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140298079 Thommo returns from Vietnam to an Australia that regards him as a mercenary guilty of war crimes. He begins to develop all kinds of physical and mental problems, and thinks it must only be him until he finds he is not alone. Ten mates, all who remain of his platoon who fought and died in the Battle of Long Tan, are affected the same way. Now Thommo and his mates are eleven angry men out for reven...
	Solomon's Song Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140271577 This is the story of two families - branches of the Solomons - transported to an alien land, both of whom eventually grow rich and powerful but who, through three generations, never for one moment relinquish their hatred for each other. It is also the story of Australia from the beginning until Australia came of age as a nation....
	Tandia Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140272925 Tandia is a child of all Africa: half Indian, half African, beautiful and intelligent, she is only sixteen when she is first brutalised by the police. Her fear of the white man leads her to join the black resistance movement, where she trains as a terrorist. With her in the fight for justice is the one white man Tandia can trust, the welterweight champion of the world, Peekay. Now he must fight th...
	Tandia Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780434146147 Continuing the story which enthralled so many readers in the international bestseller The Power of One, Tandia introduces a ravishing new heroine, who struggles against oppression as brutal as that suffered by Peekay in the first novel. Half Indian, half black, Tandia is viciously attacked after the death of her father and only protector. Her assailants are members of the South African police forc...
	Tandia Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780734305497 Tandia is a child of all Africa: half Indian, half African, beautiful and intelligent, she is only sixteen when she is first brutalised by the police. Her fear of the white man leads her to join the black resistance movement, where she trains as a terrorist. With her in the fight for justice is the one white man Tandia can trust, the welterweight champion of the world, Peekay. Now he must fight th...
	The Family Frying Pan Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140293418 Mrs Moses is a small woman with a big heart and enormous courage. The only survivor of a Cossack raid on her village, she takes with her a big cast-iron frying pan, so heavy that she can only sling it over her back. Yet this is no ordinary frying pan - it's The Family Frying Pan, blessed with a Russian soul. From this frying pan Mrs Moses manages to feed the various refugees who are travell...
	The Family Frying Pan Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780855616991 Around a campfire in Russia, a small group of refugees gathers each night to cook and tell stories. Theirs are stories spiced with every ingredient of human nature - love and pain, joy and hatred, deceit, courage, compassion and exile. Stories whose characters are caught in the eternal struggle between those who destroy and those who nurture - between life's hunters and its gatherers. Like fol...
	The Persimmon Tree Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670070701 The Persimmon Tree is unashamedly a love story. I've always wanted to write one but until now have been afraid to do so. The reason is simple enough: most men in my experience have very little idea of what really goes on in a woman's heart or head. Now, at the age of 74, I just might know enough and have sufficient courage to write on the subject - the way of a man with a woman, of a woman...
	The Persimmon Tree Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780670071210 It is 1942 in the Dutch East Indies, and Nick Duncan is a young Australian butterfly collector in search of a single exotic butterfly. With invading Japanese forces coming closer by the day, Nick falls in love with the beguiling Anna van Heerden. Their time together is brief, as both are forced into separate, dangerous escapes. They plan to reunite and marry in Australia but it is several years b...
	The Potato Factory Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140273656 "Always leave a little salt on the bread . . ." 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 nineteenth-century London to the co...
	The Potato Factory Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780434146130 Always leave a little salt on the bread... 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 nineteenth-century London to the convict settleme...
	The Potato Factory - TV Tie In Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140279030 "Always leave a little salt on the bread." . . . 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 19th century London to the convi...
	The Power of One Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140272918 "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 racism and hatred, this one small boy will come to lead all the tribes of Africa....
	Tommo & Hawk Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140271560 Join Australia's master storyteller, Bryce Courtenay, on the sweeping adventures of twin brothers Tommo and Hawk Solomon. Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of 15 in Hobart Town. Together, they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood. From whale hunting in the Pacific to the Maori wars of New Zealand, from the Rocks ...
	Tommo & Hawk Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670878772 Join Australia's master storyteller Bryce Courtenay on the sweeping adventures of twin brothers Tommo and Hawk Solomon. Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of 15 in Hobart Town. Together, they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood. From whale hunting in the Pacific to the Maori wars of New Zealand, from the Rocks in ...
	Whitethorn: A Novel Of Africa Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670029228 From Bryce Courtenay comes a new and powerful novel set in Africa. It's 1939: the world is on the brink of war. The rumbles of change reach the remote mountains where young Tom Fitzsaxby is working through some tough life lessons. Like the whitethorn, one of Africa's most enduring plants, Tom is learning to survive and even flourish against the harshest of odds. When a terrible event set...

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