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Author: Bryce Courtenay Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1459621123 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 490
Book Description
Ikey Solomon is in the business of thieving and he's very good at it. 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 nineteenth century London to the convict settlement of Van Diemen's 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. But her ambitions are threatened by Ikey's wife, Hannah, her old enemy. The two women raise their separate families, one legitimate and the other bastard. As each woman sets out to destroy the other, the families are brought to the edge of disaster.
Author: Bryce Courtenay Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1459621123 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 490
Book Description
Ikey Solomon is in the business of thieving and he's very good at it. 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 nineteenth century London to the convict settlement of Van Diemen's 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. But her ambitions are threatened by Ikey's wife, Hannah, her old enemy. The two women raise their separate families, one legitimate and the other bastard. As each woman sets out to destroy the other, the families are brought to the edge of disaster.
Author: Bryce Courtenay Publisher: ISBN: 9780140271560 Category : Adventure stories Languages : en Pages : 675
Book Description
Paperback edition of an historical novel first published in 1997. In the mid-19th century, twin brothers are kidnapped and separated in childhood, and reunited in Hobart at the age of 15. The novel tells of their adventures as they travel through the Pacific Ocean and to various destinations in Australia and New Zealand, and the way in which their relationship develops. The best-selling author's other publications include 'The Power of One' and 'The Potato Factory'.
Author: Bryce Courtenay Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1459621107 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 426
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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.
Author: Bryce Courtenay Publisher: ISBN: 9780670893898 Category : Australia Languages : en Pages : 1654
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The story of Australia's journey to nationhood. Bryce Courtenay's classic trilogy of novels, The Potato Factory, Tommo & Hawkand Solomon's Song, has won the hearts of Australians. These three books are presented together for the first time in this special collector's edition. Visit brycecourtenay.com
Author: Bryce Courtenay Publisher: Penguin Group Australia ISBN: 1742280722 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1178
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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 fight for justice is the one white man Tandia can trust, the welterweight champion of the world, Peekay. Now he must fight their common enemy in order to save both their lives. 'This is a marvellous book ... first and foremost it is a momentous story, for Bryce Courtenay is a glorious storyteller.' The Advertiser 'Nine hundred pages of sheer blockbuster pleasure.' Sunday Age
Author: Bryce Courtenay Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1459620747 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 594
Book Description
In this sweeping novel of Africa, in all its power, beauty and savagery, Courtenay captures the life of a child and the life of a nation.
Author: Bryce Courtenay Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1459621050 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 618
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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.
Author: Bryce Courtenay Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1459621085 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 614
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A drama of three lives brought together - Jack McKenzie is a 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. Private Jimmy Oldcorn was once a gang leader. Together, they reap a vast and not always legitimate fortune from the sea.
Author: Bryce Courtenay Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1459620852 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
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Mrs Moses is a small woman with a big heart and enormous courage. The only survivor of a Cossack raid on her village she takes with her a big cast-iron frying pan.
Author: Bryce Courtenay Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1459620763 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 538
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It is 1942 in the Dutch East Indies, and Nick Duncan is a young Australian butterfly collector in search of a single exotic butterfly. With invading Japanese forces coming closer by the day, Nick falls in love with the beguiling Anna van Heerden. Their time together is brief, as both are forced into separate, dangerous escapes. They plan to reunite and marry in Australia but it is several years before their paths cross again, scarred forever by the dark events of a long, cruel war. In The Persimmon Tree, Bryce Courtenay gives us a story of love and friendship set against the dramatic backdrop of the Pacific during the Second World War.
Author: Bryce Courtenay
Author: Bryce Courtenay
Author: Bryce Courtenay
Author: Bryce Courtenay
Author: Bryce Courtenay
Author: Bryce Courtenay
Author: Bryce Courtenay
Author: Bryce Courtenay
Author: Bryce Courtenay
Author: Bryce Courtenay
Author: Bryce Courtenay