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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Bryce Courtenay’s The Power of One, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
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Bryce Courtenay
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR
Experience the master storytelling of the late Bryce Courtenay - Australia’s bestselling author.
Bryce Courtenay wrote his first novel, The Power of One, at age 55, selling…
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Bryce Courtenay’s son Damon was a haemophiliac who contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion and died on April Fool’s Day. This is his father’s magnificent and deeply moving tribute to…
Billy O'Shannessy, once a prominent barrister is now a homeless alcoholic. Above his park bench rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders’ cat. Ryan is a 10 year old street…
n the 1930s, two opportunities existed for boys of Balmain, a working-class Sydney suburb: to be selected into Fort Street Boys School or to excel as a sportsman. At just…
At just 16, Danny Dunn has everything going for him: brains, looks, sporting aptitude - and luck with the ladies. His parents run The Hero of Mafeking, the favourite local…
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…
Set in the exotic locale of the spice islands during the excitement of post war prosperity and possibility, and driven by strong characters, this book is truly epic in scope…
Audiofile Earphones Award Winner 2004. Sequel to the international classic The Power of One. Tandia is a child of all Africa: half Indian, half African, beautiful and intelligent, she is…
Ikey Solomon is in the business of thieving. His partner in crime is his mistress, Mary Abacus, until misfortune befalls them. They are parted and each must make the harsh…
Best selling Australian author. All of Bryce Courtenays books have achieved extraordinary sales figures. He was the winner of the 1998 and 1999 APA Who Weekly Readers Choice Award. Brutally…
This is the final book in the Potato Factory trilogy. Mary Abacus is dead and has left her business empire in the hands of the warring Solomon family. Harry Solomon…
Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of 15. Together they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood…
The third book in a trilogy comprising Potato Factory, Tommo and Hawk and Solomon’s Song. When Mary Abacus dies, she leaves her business empire in the hands of the warring…
Best selling Australian author. All of Bryce Courtenays books have achieved extraordinary sales figures. He was the winner of the 1998 and 1999 APA Who Weekly Readers Choice Award. Thommo…
Bryce Courtenays classic bestseller is superbly narrated by Humphrey Bower. First with your head and then with your heart … So says Hoppie Groenewald, boxing champion, to a seven-year-old boy…
Bryce Courtenay’s bestselling novel is based on the true story of an unforgettable woman, Jessica, who rebels against the rules of her society. When a crime is committed Jessica must…
The four fires in this story are passion, relgion, warfare and fire itself. While there are many more fires that drive the human spirit, love being perhaps the brightest flame…
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…
Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese young man who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for Samuel Oswald Wing, an advertising agency. But the Wing brothers, who…
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…
From practical advice on how to write a bestseller to general inspiration on how to realise your dreams, this book celebrates author’s passion for storytelling, and creative process. It reflects…
Listen to the all new Brother Fish on MP3-CD over 31 hours of audio entertainment packed onto 2 MP3-CDs! Bryce Courtenays latest bestseller. Brother Fish is an inspiring human drama…
Bryce Courtenay’s latest bestseller. Brother Fish is an inspiring human drama of three lives brought together and changed forever by the extraordinary events of recent history. Narrated by celebrated, award-winning…
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…
Simultaneous release with the print edition. Bryce Courtenay’s new bestseller. In this sweeping novel of Africa, in all its power, beauty and savagery, Bryce Courtenay captures the life of a…
It’s 1942 and seventeen-year-old Nicholas Duncan is in Indonesia in pursuit of the exotic Magpie Crow butterfly. Suddenly, Duncan finds himself in danger with an imminent Japanese invasion and the…
An outcast in pre-World War II South Africa, young Peekay learns the power of self-reliance through the pain of the loneliness he experiences.
Nicholas Duncan is a semi-retired shipping magnate who resides in idyllic Beautiful Bay in Indonesia. Grieving the loss of his wife, Anna, he is suffering for the first time from…
‘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…
Best selling Australian author. All of Bryce Courtenays books have achieved extraordinary sales figures. He was the winner of the 1998 and 1999 APA Who Weekly Readers Choice Award. Mrs…
