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(Paperback)

By: Bryce Courtenay

ISBN: 9780143004608
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Bryce Courtenay

ISBN: 9780143566564
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, the author lays bare the suffering behind this young man's life.


(Paperback)

By: Bryce Courtenay

ISBN: 9780143002703
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2006
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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A drama of three lives brought together - Jack McKenzie is a small- time professional fisherman from a tiny island in Bass Strait. Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan is a strong-willed woman hiding from an ambiguous past in Shanghai. Private Jimmy Oldcorn was once a gang leader. Together, they reap a vast and not always legitimate fortune from the sea.


(Paperback)

By: Bryce Courtenay

ISBN: 9780143004622
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Bryce Courtenay

ISBN: 9780143571049
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)

By: Bryce Courtenay

ISBN: 9780143004615
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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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 fight for what she loves until the end - and then at last her secret can be told. Television mini-series to be screened July 2004.


(Paperback)

By: Bryce Courtenay

ISBN: 9780143004639
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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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 kid heading for all the usual trouble. The two meet and form an unlikely friendship. With a little imagination and history, the two begin their rehabilitation.


(Paperback)

By: Bryce Courtenay

ISBN: 9780143004547
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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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. Here, she trains as a terrorist. But then Tandia meets a man with a past as strange as her own.


(Paperback)

By: Bryce Courtenay

ISBN: 9780143004592
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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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 soul.


(Paperback)

By: Bryce Courtenay

ISBN: 9780143204794
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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First with your head and then with your heart... To Peekay, a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world, this is a piece of advice that he will carry with him throughout his life. Bryce Courtenay's classic bestseller is a story of the triumph of the human spirit - a spellbinding tale for all ages.


(Paperback)

By: Bryce Courtenay

ISBN: 9780141304892
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Aug 1999
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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This classic bestseller has now been adapted and condensed for younger readers. A timeless story of the conflict between black and white, strong and weak, this book follows a young boy's journey to manhood. This brilliant new Puffin edition ends as Peekay leaves for a new school in Johannesburg. For ages 8 to 12.


(Paperback)

By: Bryce Courtenay

ISBN: 9781761349669
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Hardback)

By: Bryce Courtenay

ISBN: 9780670878994
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1998
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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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.