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Fishing for Stars by Bryce Courtenay
Category: 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
Fishing for Stars by Bryce Courtenay
Category: 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?
Fortune Cookie by Bryce Courtenay
Category: Audio
It's the 1960s and the world of advertising is coming alive - and it's 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 ...Show more
Fortune Cookie by Bryce Courtenay
Category: Fiction
Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for an advertising agency. But the Wing brothers, who run the agency, are not what they seem. There is soon trouble when Simon falls in love with the forbidden Mercy B. Lord. With no family or connections, ...Show more
Fortune Cookie by Bryce Courtenay
Category: 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
Fortune Cookie by Bryce Courtenay
Category: Fiction
I do hope you enjoy Fortune Cookie - a love story set against the wretched trade in drugs and human misery operating during the Vietnam War. - Bryce Courtenay. Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for Samuel Oswald Wing, an advertising ag ...Show more
Four Fires by Bryce Courtenay
Category: Fiction
In a small town like any other small town around Australia live the Maloneys. They are a fifth-generation Australian family of Irish Catholic descent who are struggling to reach the first rung of the social ladder. The Maloneys are a family you won't forget: a strong mother, a father broken by war, thre ...Show more
Four Fires (CD) by Bryce Courtenay
Category: Audio
The four fires in this story are passion, relgion, warfare and fire itself. While there are many more fires that drive the human spirit, love being perhaps the brightest flame of all, it is these four that have moulded us most as Australian people. The four fires give us our sense of place and, for bett ...Show more
Jack of Diamonds by Bryce Courtenay
Category: 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 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
Jack of Diamonds by Bryce Courtenay
Category: Fiction
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
Category: 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