BRYCE COURTENAY

First with your head and then with your heart ...So says Hoppie Groenewald, boxing champion, to a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world. For the young Peekay, its a piece of advice he will carry with him throughout his life.Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, this one small boy will come to lead all the tribes of Africa. Through enduring friendships with Hymie and Gideon, Peekay gains the strength he needs to win out. And in a final conflict with his childhood enemy, the Judge, Peekay will fight to the death for justice.

Half-African, half-Indian and beautiful, Tandia is just a teenager when she is brutally attacked and violated by the South African police. Desperately afraid and consumed by hatred for the white man, Tandia seeks refuge in a brothel deep in the veld. There she learns to use her brilliant mind and extraordinary looks as weapons for the battles that lie ahead: she trains as a terrorist.But then Tandia meets a man with a past as strange as her own: Peekay, an Oxford undergraduate who is also the challenger for the world welterweight boxing championship - and a white man. And in a land where mixed relationships are outlawed, their growing love can only have the most explosive consequences...

Master storyteller Bryce Courtenay begins an epic tale of bravery, love and adventure - and the unbreakable bond shared by two brothers ... The time is the 1850s, during the savage founding years of Britain's wildest and farthest flung colonies. The place is Hobart Town, a tiny speck of civilization clinging to the southernmost tip of Tasmania. It is here that twin brothers Tommo and Hawk Solomon are finally reunited after years of anguished separation. Both men still struggle to escape the horrors of their past. Yet both are ready for the harsh new challenges which will finally forge their destiny. From whale hunting in the wild Pacific to the horrors of the Maori wars in New Zealand, from the Rocks in Sydney to the miners' riots in the goldfields, they will fight side by side to save the love they cherish most. Tommo and Hawk is the brilliant new novel from one of the world's greatest storytellers.

Primero con la cabeza y luego con el corazón' le aconsejan a Peekay, un niño que crece en una sociedad donde reina el racismo y el odio. Un niño rechazado por hablar inglés -el idioma de los que impusieron el dolor a los afrikaaners durante la guerra de los boers- y por haber sido criado por una mujer negra, el color del miedo y del desprecio. Peekay no tiene mas remedio que superar la humillacion y el abandono con la fuerza de la supervivencia que le conducira hasta las cimas mas inesperadas. Disponible la continuacion Tandia.

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. Solomon's Song is a novel of courage and betrayal in which Bryce Courtenay tells the story of Australia's journey to nationhood.

From Bryce Courtenay comes a new novel about Africa. The time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people frantically opposed to the English. The world is also on the brink of war and South Africa elects to fight for the Allied cause against Germany. Six year-old Tom Fitzsaxby finds himself in The Boys Farm, an orphanage in a remote town in the high mountains, where the Afrikaners side fiercely with Hitlers Germany. Toms English name proves sufficient for him to be ostracised, marking him as an outsider. And so begin some of lifes tougher lessons for the small lonely boy. Like the whitethorn, one of Africas most enduring plants, Tom learns how to survive in the harsh climate of racial hatred. Then a terrible event sends him on a journey to ensure that justice is done. On the way, his most unexpected discovery is love.

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. Solomons Song is a novel of courage and betrayal in which Bryce Courtenay tells the story of Australias journey to nationhood.

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. He is grieving the loss of his beautiful Eurasian wife, Anna, and is suffering for the first time from disturbing flashbacks to WWII, the scene of their first meeting and early love. His other wartime lover is the striking Marg Hamilton, a powerful and influential political player in Australia who has remained close to Nick. Marg suspects Nick is suffering the onset of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and organises for a specialist to meet with him in Sydney. But when they meet, Tony Freedman stirs long-buried emotions in Nick and the two men dont hit it off. Nick leaves in an explosion of anger and finds himself in hospital after being hit by a car. Tony visits and encourages Nick to write as a form of therapy - to write about Anna.So he sets about writing about the woman who has inspired him since his late teens, and in doing so draws us into the compelling tale of the life he has lived post war-hero days building a shipping empire, navigating international corruption, supporting his wifes third-world education crusade and loving the women who inspire him.

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 at the goldfields, Tommo and Hawk must learn each others strengths and weaknesses in order to survive. Especially in their last, worst confrontation between good and evil. Brilliantly evoking a time of struggle and triumph in the young colonies, Bryce Courtenay has created an unforgettable tale of the enduring bond between two brothers.

A superb storyteller ... it is impossible not to be impressed by Courtenays talents - The Times JESSICA is based on the real life of a remarkable young Australian woman who defied the conventions of her time. She had a stubborn streak and the courage to act out her convictions ... in spite of the consequences. This compelling, sweeping story is her personal fight for justice against enormous odds, and a testimony to the power of the human spirit to triumph over adversity.