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A Recipe for Dreaming by BRYCE COURTENAY
$24.99 AUD
Category: Inspirational
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
$14.99 AUD
Category: General 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
Fortune Cookie by Bryce Courtenay
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for 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. With no family or connections, ...Show more
Jack of Diamonds by Bryce Courtenay
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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: General 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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
Smoky Joe's Cafe by Bryce Courtenay
$19.95 AUD
Category: General 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: General 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
Sylvia by Bryce Courtenay
$44.95 AUD
Category: Audio Books
'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 the story of the Children's Crusade, which occurred in the year 1212, and is perhaps the strangest true event to ...Show more
Tandia by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 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 Family Frying Pan by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Non-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: General 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