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A Recipe for Dreaming by BRYCE COURTENAY
$24.95 AUD
Category: Health
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 by Bryce Courtenay
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering behind this young man's life. Damon's story is one of lifelong struggle, his love for Celeste, the compassion of family, and a fight to the end for integrity.
April Fool's Day by Bryce Courtenay
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 condemns the medical approach taken towards AIDS, and how he and his family coped with Damon's haemophlia and early death.
April Fool's Day: 16 Spoken Word CDs by Bryce Courtenay
$44.95 AUD
Category: Audio Books
Bryce Courtenay's moving tribute to his son, Damon. A tragic yet uplifting story. April Fool's Day is controversial, painful and heartbreaking, yet has a gentle humour. It is also life-affirming, and, above all, a testimony to the incredible regenerative strength of love - how when we confront our wors ...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
$24.99 AUD
Category: 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
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
Four Fires by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a small town like any other small town around Australia live the Maloneys. They are a fifth-generation Australian family of Irish Catholic descent who are struggling to reach the first rung of the social ladder. The Maloneys are a family you won't forget: a strong mother, a father broken by war, thre ...Show more
Jack of Diamonds by Bryce Courtenay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"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 Spayd is offered a ticket out in the form of a Hohner harmonica, won by hi ...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
Jack of Diamonds by Bryce Courtenay
$34.95 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