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  • Solomon's Song

    This is the story of two families – branches of the Solomons – transported to an alien land, both of whom eventually grow rich and powerful but who, through three generations, never for one moment relinquish their hatred for each other. It is also the story of our country from the beginning until we came of age as a nation.I have learned a great deal about Australia and those things which concern ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Power of One

    In 1939, hatred took root in South Africa, where the seeds of apartheid were newly sown. There a boy called Peekay was born. He spoke the wrong language–English. He was nursed by a woman of the wrong color–black. His childhood was marked by humiliation and abandonment. Yet he vowed to survive–he would become welterweight champion of the world, he would dream heroic dreams.But his dreams were ... Read more

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  • The Power of One

    The iconic novel from the multimillion-copy bestselling author

    Series series Power of One
    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.Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, this one small boy will come to lead all the tribes of Africa. And in a final conflict with his childhood enemy, the Judge, Peekay ... Read more

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  • Sylvia

    'I am Sylvia Honeyeater; I think myself born around 1196, and this is the story of my life.'From master storyteller Bryce Courtenay comes the colourful epic of Sylvia. Late twelfth-century Europe is torn by religious intolerance. Sylvia, with a singing voice that can literally charm the birds out of the trees, and an acute and questioning mind that refuses to accept unreasoned beliefs, embarks on ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Tandia

    The sequel to Power of One

    Series series Power of One
    Tandia sat waiting anxiously for the fight to begin between the man she loved the most and the man she hated the most in the world.Tandia is a child of Africa: half Indian, half African, beautiful and intelligent, she is only sixteen when she is first brutalised by the police. Her fear of the white man leads her to join the black resistance movement, where she trains as a terrorist.With her in the ... Read more

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  • Jack Of Diamonds

    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 his brutal drunken father in a late-night card game. Jack makes music as a way of escaping his surroundings, and his talent leads him to a jazz club and, eventually, to the jazz piano.Jack is a virtuoso and hits ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Potato Factory

    Narrated by Humphrey Bower ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Potato Factory Trilogy

    Unabridged

    23 hours 23 min

    Ikey Solomon is very successful indeed, in the art of thieving. 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 19th century London to Van Diemens Land. In the backstreets and dives of Hobart Town, Mary learns the art of brewing and builds The Potato Factory, where she plans a new future. ... Read more

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  • Fortune Cookie

    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, this beautiful young woman is powerless to resist the evil influence of Beatrice Fong, a ... Read more

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  • A Recipe for Dreaming

    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 Williams.'Whatever the dream, no matter how daring or grand, somebody will eventually achieve it ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Night Country

    Narrated by Humphrey Bower ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 13 min

    Towards the end of the Great Depression a young boy goes with his sister to stay at a farm while their mother is ill. There, during a scorching African summer, he witnesses a trial and punishment which will forever remind him of white men's cruelty to black people. The Night Country is a fable for all ages – a powerful account of the strength that lives within us all. ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Sylvia

    Narrated by Edwina Wren ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 8 min

    The story of Sylvia Honeyeater, who sings like an angel and can literally charm the birds from the trees, this epic tale of a Europe torn by religious intolerance also features the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Francis of Assisi, the Muslim Sultan and his harem, as well as the fervour that became the Children's Crusade and then later the Crusades. ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Matthew Flinders' Cat

    Narrated by Humphrey Bower ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 13 min

    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 windowsill rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old, a near street kid heading for all the usual trouble. The two meet and form an unlikely friendship. Appealing to the boy's imagination by telling him the story of the ... Read more

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