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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
$34.95 AUD
Category: Audio
Bryce Courtenay's son Damon was a haemophiliac who contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion and died on April Fool's Day. This is his father's magnificent and deeply moving tribute to Damon.
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: Popular Penguins by Bryce Courtenay
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
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: 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
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary 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
Four Fires (CD) by Bryce Courtenay
$44.95 AUD
Category: Audio
The four fires in this story are passion, relgion, warfare and fire itself. While there are many more fires that drive the human spirit, love being perhaps the brightest flame of all, it is these four that have moulded us most as Australian people. The four fires give us our sense of place and, for bett ...Show more
Jack of Diamonds by Bryce Courtenay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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; Humphrey Bower (Read by)
$44.95 AUD
Category: Audio
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Jessica by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: 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 MP3 CD by Bryce Courtenay; Humphrey Bower (Read by)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Audio
The story of a drunk, a boy and a cat. Billy O'Shannessy, once a prominent barrister, is now on the streets where he sleeps on a bench outside the State Library. Above him on the windowsill rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old near-street kid heading for the usua ...Show more
Matthew Flinders' Cat by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: 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