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A Recipe for Dreaming by BRYCE COURTENAY
$28.00 NZD
Category: General
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 ...Show more
Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay
$35.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Fishing For Stars by Bryce Courtenay
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
Nick Duncan 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 true love, Anna, and is suffering for the first time from disturbing flashbacks to the Second Worl ...Show more
Fishing for Stars by Bryce Courtenay
$55.00 NZD
Category: World 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?
Fishing for Stars by Bryce Courtenay
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Fortune Cookie by Bryce Courtenay
$60.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Jack of Diamonds by Bryce Courtenay
$55.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Sylvia by Bryce Courtenay
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'I am Sylvia Honeyeater; I think myself born around 1196, and this is the story of my life. I am cursed by folk as an optimist and a dreamer, which is a dangerous combination ...'Sylviais the story of the Children's Crusade, which occurred in the year 1212, and is perhaps the strangest true event to hav ...Show more
Sylvia by Bryce Courtenay
$55.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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' ...Show more
Tandia by Bryce Courtenay
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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