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April Fool's Day: Popular Penguins by Bryce Courtenay
12.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Jack of Diamonds by Bryce Courtenay
45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Born and raised in a poor, working-class family in Toronto, Jack Spayd is the son of an unhappy marriage. But when he is given a harmonica as a young boy, he discovers a talent for music that will change his life forever. After being taken under the wing of 'Miss Frostbite', the owner of a local jazz cl ...Show more
Jack of Diamonds by Bryce Courtenay
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
Jessica by Bryce Courtenay
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 sav ...Show more
Matthew Flinders' Cat by Bryce Courtenay
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
Tandia by Bryce Courtenay
24.95 AUD
Category: 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 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 Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay
24.95 AUD
Category: 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
24.95 AUD
Category: 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: Popular Penguins by Bryce Courtenay
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: African Collection
First with your head and then with your heart' is advice Peekay, a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world, will carry 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 f ...Show more
The Power of One: Young Readers' Ed by Bryce Courtenay
19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | 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