OTHER BOOKS BY BRYCE COURTENAY
AVAILABLE FROM McARTHUR & COMPANY
THE POWER OF ONE
Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, young Peekay will come to lead all the tribes of Africa. Through enduring friendships, he gains the strength he needs to win out. And in a final conflict with his childhood enemy, Peekay will fight to the death for justice . . .
Bryce Courtenay’s classic bestseller is a story of triumph of the human spirit – a spellbinding tale for all ages.
TANDIA
Tandia is a child of all 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.
THE AUSTRALIAN TRILOGY
THE POTATO FACTORY
Ikey Solomon and his partner in crime, Mary Abacus, 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 builds The Potato Factory, where she plans a new future. But her ambitions are threatened by Ikey’s wife, Hannah, her old enemy. As each woman sets out to destroy the other, the families are brought to the edge of disaster.
TOMMO & HAWK
Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited in Hobart Town. Together they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood. From whale hunting in the Pacific to the Maori wars in New Zealand, from the Rocks in Sydney to the miners’ riots at the goldfields, Tommo and Hawk must learn each other’s strengths and weaknesses in order to survive.
SOLOMON’S SONG
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.
JESSICA
Jessica is based on the inspiring true story of a young girl’s fight for justice against tremendous odds. A tomboy, Jessica is the pride of her father, as they work together on the struggling family farm. One quiet day, the peace of the bush is devastated by a terrible murder. Only Jessica is able to save the killer from the lynch mob – but will justice prevail in the courts?
Nine months later, a baby is born . . . with Jessica determined to guard the secret of the father’s identity. The rivalry of Jessica and her beautiful sister for the love of the same man will echo throughout their lives – until finally the truth must be told.
Set in a harsh Australian bush against the outbreak of World War I, this novel is heartbreaking in its innocence, and shattering in its brutality.
SMOKY JOE’S CAFE
Thommo returns from Vietnam to an Australia that regards him as a mercenary guilty of war crimes. All who remain of his platoon who fought and died in the Battle of Long Tan are affected the same way. Now Thommo and his mates are angry men out for revenge. They’re the ‘Dirty Dozen’, just like the movie. Only it’s real life, and they’re so screwed up they probably couldn’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag.
That is, until a woman of character steps in. Wendy’s infant daughter is dying and needs a bone-marrow transplant. Hell hath no fury . . . as she sets out to mould this bunch of ex-jungle fighters into a unit that will fight for justice, by fair means or foul.
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