Bryce Courtenay Novels (10) Epub, Mobi

Bryce Courtenay Novels (10) Epub, Mobi

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Overview: Bryce Courtenay was born in South Africa, is an Australian and has lived in Sydney for the major part of his life.


Potato Factory series:

The Potato Factory (1996)
Brothel mistress Hannah is Ikey Solomon's wife, whilst Mary is his sometimes mistress. When Hannah and Mary are banished to Australia, they set about raising their separate familes. Ikey is drawn to the colony where the destinies of both family groups are locked together by his greed.

Tommo and Hawk (1998)
Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of 15 in Hobart. Together, they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood.

Solomon's Song (1999)
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 bitter struggle that crosses battlefields and continents to reach a powerful conclusion. SOLOMON'S SONG is a novel of courage and betrayal in which Bryce Courtenay tells the story of Australia's journey to nationhood.

Novels:

The Power of One (1989)
Six-year-old Peekay, born in the 1930s in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, one day learns that small can beat big. He learns to think with his head and then with his heart. He discovers that nothing can defeat the determination to be true to yourself; this is the power of one.

Jessica (1998)
The true life story (told in the form of a novel) of one young women's fight for justice against enormous odds. A tale of murder set in harsh Australian countryside against the outbreak of World War I, "Jessica" is a testimony to the power of human spirit to triumph over adversity.

Smokey Joe's Cafe (2001)
Thommo returns from Vietnam to Australia where he is regarded as a mercenary guilty of war crimes. He develops both physical and mental problems, and thinks it must only be him until he finds ten mates, all who remain of his platoon who fought and died, are affected the same way. Now they are eleven angry men out for revenge. They rope in an ex-Viet Cong with 'special skills' and his own secret agenda. They're the real life 'Dirty Dozen', only they're so screwed up they couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag. Until a woman of character steps in. Wendy's infant daughter is dying and needs a bone marrow transplant. She sets out to mould this bunch of ex-jungle fighters into a unit that will fight for justice, by fair means or foul.

Four Fires (2001)
The story of a small-town, fifth-generation, Irish-Australian Catholic family struggling to reach the first rung of the social ladder. Their lives are forged by the "the four fires" - passion, religion, warfare and fire itself.

Brother Fish (2004)
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 and small-time professional fisherman from a tiny island in Bass Strait. Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan is a strong-willed woman hiding from an ambiguous past in Shanghai. Larger than life, Private Jimmy Oldcorn was once a street kid and leader of a New York gang. Together, they reap a vast and not always legitimate fortune from the sea. Brother Fish is an inspiring human drama of three lives brought together and changed forever by the extraordinary events of recent history. But most of all it is about the power of friendship and love.

Sylvia (2006)
Sylvia is the story of the Children's Crusade - 1212 - possibly the strangest event to take place in European history. It is the story of the power of a young girl's love in the midst of medieval darkness to fight brutality and bigotry.

Fortune Cookie (2011)
Its the 1960s and the world of advertising is coming alive and its an exciting world to be part of. Simon Wong, 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 and profoundly different; one where the rules that govern behaviour both in business and in personal life differ wildly from what he is used to. And where all is not what it appears to be. Under the veneer of the commercial world lie some shocking truths of people smuggling, drug trafficking and murder. And Mercy B. Lord, the woman Simon falls for, is caught up in it. From wartime Asian comfort houses to CIA spy rings, Bryce Courtenay takes us on a thrilling journey with a great love story at its heart.


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