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Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay; Humphrey Bower (Read by)
Category: Audio
Inspired by real events, Brother Fish 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-Jourd ...Show more
Jack of Diamonds by Humphrey Bower (Read by); Bryce Courtenay
Category: Audio
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 his b ...Show more
MATTHEW FLINDERS CAT MP3 CD by Bryce Courtenay; Humphrey Bower (Read by)
Category: Audio
The story of a drunk, a boy and a cat. Billy O'Shannessy, once a prominent barrister, is now on the streets 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 near-street kid heading for the usua ...Show more
Persimmon Tree MP3 by Bryce Courtenay; Humphrey Bower (Read by)
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The persimmon tree is a symbol of life, a heartwood that will outlast everything man can make...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 lov ...Show more
Smoky Joe's Cafe (CD) by Bryce Courtenay; Humphrey Bower (Read by)
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Best selling Australian author. All of Bryce Courtenay's books have achieved extraordinary sales figures. He was the winner of the 1998 and 1999 APA Who Weekly Reader's Choice Award. Thommo returns from Vietnam to a Australia that regards him as a mercenary guilty of war crimes. He begins to develop all ...Show more
Solomon's Song by Bryce Courtenay; Humphrey Bower (Read by)
Category: Audio | Series: Potato Factory Trilogy Ser.
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 cam ...Show more
The Story of Danny Dunn (CD) by Bryce Courtenay; Humphrey Bower (Read by)
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In the aftermath of the Great Depression few opportunities existed for working-class boys, but at just eighteen Danny Dunn has everything going for him- brains, looks, sporting ability - and an easy charm. His parents run The Hero, a neighbourhood pub, and Danny is a local hero. Luck changes for Danny ...Show more
Tommo and Hawk by Bryce Courtenay; Humphrey Bower (Read by)
Category: Audio | Series: Potato Factory Trilogy Ser.
Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of fifteen in Hobart. Together they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood. From whale hunting in the Pacific to the Maori wars of New Zealand, from the Rocks in Sydney to the miners' riots a ...Show more
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