Bryce Courtenay

Towards the end of the Great Depression a young boy goes with his sister to stay at a farm while their mother is ill. There, during a scorching African summer, he witnesses a trial and punishment which will forever remind him of white men's cruelty to black people.

Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of 15 in Hobart Town....

Here is the story of two families, branches of the Solomons, transported to an alien land. Both eventually grow rich and powerful....

Thommo returns from Vietnam to an Australia that regards him as a mercenary guilty of war crimes....

From the author of The Power of One comes an inspiring human drama of three lives brought together....

This is Bryce Courtenay's moving tribute to his son, Damon, a hemophiliac who died from medically acquired AIDS on April 1, 1991, at the age of 24....

Here is an Australian family saga centering on a working-class family of publicans who make their first mark in Balmain in the 1930s....

Nicholas Duncan is a semi-retired shipping magnate who resides in idyllic Beautiful Bay in Indonesia, where he is known as the old patriarch of the islands....

The four fires in this story are passion, religion, warfare and fire itself....

Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, little six-year-old Peekay learns that small can beat big....

Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, this small boy will come to lead all the tribes of Africa....

One quiet day, the peace of the Australian bush is devastated by a terrible murder. Only a young girl can save the killer from a lynch mob - but justice may not prevail....

Six-year-old Tom Fitzsaxby finds himself in an orphanage where the Afrikaners side fiercely with Hitler's Germany....

A sweeping saga from Bryce Courtenay, Australia's most popular author....

Mrs. Moses is a small woman with a big heart and enormous courage, the only survivor of a Cossack raid....

It's the 1960s and the world of advertising is coming alive - and it's an exciting world to be part of....

The story of a drunk, a boy, and a cat....

Each of us has a place to return to in our minds, a place of clarity and peace, a place to think, to create, to dream....

Ikey Solomon's favorite saying is also his way of doing business....

Born and raised in a poor, working-class family in Toronto, Jack Spayd is the son of an unhappy marriage....