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April Fool's Day by Bryce Courtenay
$30.00 NZD
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.
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 ag ...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
Four Fires by Bryce Courtenay
$30.00 NZD
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
$30.00 NZD
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
$44.99 NZD
$55.00 (18% off)
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
$37.00 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
Solomon's Song (Potato Factory #3) by Bryce Courtenay
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: POTATOE FACTORY
When Mary Abacus dies, she leaves her business empire in the hands of the warring Solomon family. Hawk Solomon is determined to bring together both sides of the tribe - but it is the new generation who must fight to change the future. Solomons are pitted against Solomons as the families are locked in a ...Show more
Tandia by Bryce Courtenay
$30.00 NZD
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 Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay
$30.00 NZD
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
$30.00 NZD
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 Collector's Edition by Bryce Courtenay
$50.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
First with your head and then with your heart...