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Recipe for Dreaming (O/P 20/11/08) by Bryce Courtenay
$27.32 AUD
Category: Small Pleasures
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 w ...Show more
Solomon's Song (Potato Factory #3) by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | 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 Courtenay,Bryce
$16.45 AUD
Category: General 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 Australian Trilogy by Courtenay Bryce
$50.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The story of Australia's journey to nationhood. Bryce Courtenay's classic trilogy of novels, The Potato Factory, Tommo & Hawkand Solomon's Song, has won the hearts of Australians. These three books are presented together for the first time in this special collector's edition. Visit brycecourtenay. ...Show more
The Family Frying Pan by Bryce Courtenay
$32.79 AUD
Category: General 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 Russian ...Show more
The Night Country by Bryce Courtenay
$29.95 AUD
Category: General 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
$32.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
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 sep ...Show more
The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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
The Power of One: Young Readers' Ed by Bryce Courtenay
$19.95 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, little six-year-old Peekay learns that small can beat big. Armed with this knowledge, he resolves to take on the injustices of his country, and sets his heart on becoming the welterweight champion of the world. Peekay starts to take boxing lessons, ma ...Show more
Tommo and Hawk (Potato Factory #2) by Bryce Courtenay
$24.99 AUD
Category: 8-12 Fiction | Series: POTATO FACTORY BK2
Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of fifteen in Hobart. 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 Sydney to the miners' riots a ...Show more