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  The Power of One: Book 1

  Power of One

  by Bryce Courtenay

  In this majestic novel, an irresistible boy tells the story of his survival and coming of age against the background of South Africa, during and just after World War II.
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  April Fool's Day

  A modern tragedy

  by Bryce Courtenay

  The author of THE POWER OF ONE celebrates the life of his son Damon, a haemophiliac, who died from medically acquired AIDS at the age of 24. He also condemns the medical approach taken towards AIDS and describes how he and his family coped with Damon's haemophilia and early death. Originally published in 1995 by Heinemann.
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  Jessica

  by Bryce Courtenay

  This best-selling novel is set in outback Australia during the early 20th Century. Jessica Bergman, the heroine of the book, is a tomboy who helps her father, run the family farm. Meanwhile her elder sister, the beautiful but stuck-up Meg, dreams up plans, with the help of her mother, to wed the local rich boy.When a brutal murder is carried out at a neighboring farm, Jessica helps the killer survive a lynch mob... (more)
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  Potato Factory Trilogy

  The Potato Factory Trilogy

  by Bryce Courtenay

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  The Night Country

  by Bryce Courtenay

  The Night Country is an enchanting and inspiring story from one of Australia's most popular authors, Bryce Courtenay, which draws on the author's childhood in Africa. 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... (more)
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  The Family Frying Pan

  by Bryce Courtenay

  Mrs Moses is a small woman with a big heart and enormous courage. The only survivor of a Cossack raid on her village, she takes with her a big cast-iron frying pan, so heavy that she can only sling it over her back. Yet this is no ordinary frying pan it's The Family Frying Pan, blessed with a Russian soul. From this frying pan Mrs Moses manages to feed the various refugees who are travelling with her across... (more)
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  The Power of One: Book 2

  Tandia

  by Bryce Courtenay

  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. 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... (more)