Secondhand Bryce Courtenay Bargain Book Box SP4263

Secondhand Bryce Courtenay Bargain Book Box SP4263

Sixteen Bryce Courtenay titles, several in hardback: The Power of One and its sequel Tandia, the complete Potato Factory trilogy, The Persimmon Tree and its sequel, Jessica, Four Fires, Brother Fish and April Fool’s Day. Australia’s best-selling storyteller, nearly complete, in big books about underdogs who refuse to stay down.

1. Brother Fish — Bryce Courtenay — A harmonica-playing fisherman from a Bass Strait island and a black American orphan meet as prisoners in the Korean War. Their friendship lasts fifty years and builds a fishing empire. Hardback.
2. Jessica — Bryce Courtenay — A tomboy on a Riverina farm before the First World War is betrayed by her mother and sister, and later risks everything to help an Aboriginal friend get her children back. Based on a true story.
3. Sylvia — Bryce Courtenay — In 1212, thousands of children set out on foot for Jerusalem, and a peasant girl with a remarkable singing voice walks with them. Courtenay’s medieval novel.
4. Matthew Flinders’ Cat — Bryce Courtenay — A former barrister, now a homeless alcoholic, sleeps on a bench beside the statue of Flinders’ cat Trim. He begins telling the cat’s story to a street kid, and each of them saves the other.
5. Whitethorn — Bryce Courtenay — Tom, an English-speaking orphan in a harsh Afrikaner orphanage in 1939, has one friend, a dog called Tinker. A return to the South Africa of The Power of One.
6. Fishing for Stars — Bryce Courtenay — Nick Duncan, now a shipping magnate in the Pacific, spends his life torn between two brilliant, difficult women. The sequel to The Persimmon Tree. Hardback.
7. The Night Country — Bryce Courtenay — A short, true story from Courtenay’s African childhood, about something a small boy saw one night. A small gift hardback that takes an hour to read.
8. Solomon’s Song — Bryce Courtenay — Two branches of the Solomon family feud across Australia until their sons go to Gallipoli together. The final book of the Potato Factory trilogy.
9. The Persimmon Tree — Bryce Courtenay — Java, 1942: a seventeen-year-old butterfly collector falls in love days before the Japanese invade, and has to sail for Australia without her.
10. Tommo & Hawk — Bryce Courtenay — Mary Abacus’s adopted twins, one small and white, one huge and black, go to sea on a whaling ship and into the Maori wars. The second book of the trilogy.
11. The Family Frying Pan — Bryce Courtenay — Mrs Moses flees Tsarist Russia on foot with only a frying pan, and each refugee who joins her pays for supper with a story. Illustrated by Ann Williams. Hardback.
12. The Potato Factory — Bryce Courtenay — Ikey Solomon, London’s most successful criminal, his vengeful wife and his clever mistress Mary Abacus are all transported to Van Diemen’s Land. The first of the trilogy.
13. April Fool’s Day — Bryce Courtenay — The true story of Courtenay’s son Damon, a haemophiliac who contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion and died on 1 April 1991. Written at Damon’s request, it is angry and loving.
14. The Power of One — Bryce Courtenay — Peekay, a small English boy bullied in a Boer boarding school in 1939, decides he will be welterweight champion of the world. The debut that sold eight million copies.
15. Four Fires — Bryce Courtenay — The Maloneys are the poorest family in a small Victorian town, garbage collectors with a father damaged by war. The four children decide they will rise anyway.
16. Tandia — Bryce Courtenay — A mixed-race girl is assaulted by police on the day of her father’s funeral and becomes a fighter against apartheid. Peekay returns in this sequel to The Power of One.