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An Anzac's Story by Roy Kyle, edited by Bryce Courtenay
$0.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Many books have been written by officers, historians and military experts on the part the Anzacs played in the Dardanelles campaign during the First World War. There are very few by the ordinary soldier. Roy Kyle started writing this memoir at the age of 89 and almost completed it before he died. A typi ...Show more
April Fool's Day by Bryce Courtenay
$26.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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.
Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay
$30.00 NZD
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
Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay
$0.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Brother Fish is an Australian saga spanning eighty years and four continents.Inspired by real events, Bryce Courtenay's new novel 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 ...Show more
Bryce Courtenay's Africa (CD) by Bryce Courtenay
$59.95 NZD
Category: No Category
First with your head and then with your heart... So says Hoppie Groenewald, boxing champion, to a 7-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 life. Born in a South Africa divided by racism and ...Show more
Fishing for Stars by Bryce Courtenay
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Nicholas 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 wife, Anna, and is suffering for the first time from flash backs of WWII, and the time of their first ...Show more
Fishing for Stars by Bryce Courtenay
$57.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Set in the exotic locale of the spice islands during the excitement of post war prosperity and possibility, and driven by strong characters, this book is truly epic in scope. The question at it's heart, is it possible for a man to love two women?
Fortune Cookie by Bryce Courtenay
$60.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
It's the 1960s and the world of advertising is coming alive--and it's an exciting world to be part of. Simon Koo, a Chinese-Australian and promising young advertising executive, is sent to Singapore to establish an office. He finds himself thrust into an environment that is at once strangely familiar an ...Show more
Fortune Cookie by Bryce Courtenay
$30.00 NZD
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
$40.00 NZD
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 ...Show more
Jack of Diamonds by Bryce Courtenay
$45.00 NZD
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
$29.99 NZD
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
