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A Recipe for Dreaming by BRYCE COURTENAY
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
April Fool's Day: Popular Penguins by Bryce Courtenay
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Inspired by real events, Brother Fish 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. Nicole Lenoir-Jour ...Show more
Fishing For Stars by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
I do hope you enjoy Fortune Cookie - a love story set against the wretched trade in drugs and human misery operating during the Vietnam War. - Bryce Courtenay. Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for Samuel Oswald Wing, an advertising ag ...Show more
Smoky Joe's Cafe by Bryce Courtenay
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Best selling Australian author. All of Bryce Courtenay's books have achieved extraordinary sales figures. He was the winner of the 1998 and 1999 APA Who Weekly Reader's Choice Award. Thommo returns from Vietnam to a Australia that regards him as a mercenary guilty of war crimes. He begins to develop all ...Show more
Sylvia by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'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 ...'Sylviais the story of the Children's Crusade, which occurred in the year 1212, and is perhaps the strangest true event to hav ...Show more
Tandia by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
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 Family Frying Pan by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 Russ ...Show more
The Night Country by Bryce Courtenay
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 Persimmon Tree by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: African Collection | Reading Level: very good
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