The first in a fictional trilogy that spans the history of Australia. Tells the story of two women Q Mary Abacus, sometime mistress of London criminal Ikey Solomon, and Hannah, wife of Ikey. They both raise separate families, both named Solomon, in Van Dieman's Land where Mary was transported. Determined to survive their past and create a future, the two women set out to destroy each other. The well-known author has written several other works, including 'The Power of One' and 'April Fool's Day'.

The first in a fictional trilogy that spans the history of Australia. Tells the story of two women Q Mary Abacus, sometime mistress of London criminal Ikey Solomon, and Hannah, wife of Ikey. They both raise separate families, both named Solomon, in Van Dieman's Land where Mary was transported. Determined to survive their past and create a future, the two women set out to destroy each other. The well-known author has written several other works, including 'The Power of One' and 'April Fool's Day'.

Brother Fish is an Australian saga spanning eighty years and four continents. Inspired by real events, Bryce Courtenay's new novel tells the story of three people from vastly differing backgrounds. All they have in common is a tough beginning in life. Jack McKenzie is a harmonica player, soldier, dreamer and small-time professional fisherman from a tiny island in Bass Strait. Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan is a strong-willed woman hiding from an ambiguous past in Shanghai. Larger than life, Private Jimmy Oldcorn was once a street kid and leader of a New York gang. Together, they reap a vast and not always legitimate fortune from the sea. Brother Fish is an inspiring human drama of three lives brought together and changed forever by the extraordinary events of recent history. But most of all it is about the power of friendship and love.

Billy O'Shannessy, once a prominent barrister, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench outside the State Library. Above him on the window sill rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old, a near street kid heading for all the usual trouble. The two meet and form an unlikely friendship.

Ikey Solomon is in the business of thieving and he's very good at it. Ikey's partner in crime is his mistress, the forthright Mary Abacus, until misfortune befalls them. They are parted and each must 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 learns the art of brewing and builds The Potato Factory, where she plans a new future. But her ambitions are threatened by Ikey's wife, Hannah, her old enemy. The two women raise their separate families, one legitimate and the other bastard. As each woman sets out to destroy the other, the families are brought to the edge of disaster.

Brother Fish is an Australian saga spanning eighty years and four continents. Inspired by real events, Bryce Courtenay's new novel tells the story of three people from vastly differing backgrounds. All they have in common is a tough beginning in life. Jack McKenzie is a harmonica player, soldier, dreamer and small-time professional fisherman from a tiny island in Bass Strait. Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan is a strong-willed woman hiding from an ambiguous past in Shanghai. Larger than life, Private Jimmy Oldcorn was once a street kid and leader of a New York gang. Together, they reap a vast and not always legitimate fortune from the sea. Brother Fish is an inspiring human drama of three lives brought together and changed forever by the extraordinary events of recent history. But most of all it is about the power of friendship and love.

Aphorisms about life, daydreaming and asking yourself questions, with each thought illustrated by a contemporary graphic designer. By the author of 'The Power of One'.

The first in a fictional trilogy that spans the history of Australia. Tells the story of two women Q Mary Abacus, sometime mistress of London criminal Ikey Solomon, and Hannah, wife of Ikey. They both raise separate families, both named Solomon, in Van Dieman's Land where Mary was transported. Determined to survive their past and create a future, the two women set out to destroy each other. The well-known author has written several other works, including 'The Power of One' and 'April Fool's Day'.

Ikey Solomon is in the business of thieving and he's very good at it. Ikey's partner in crime is his mistress, the forthright Mary Abacus, until misfortune befalls them. They are parted and each must 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 learns the art of brewing and builds The Potato Factory, where she plans a new future. But her ambitions are threatened by Ikey's wife, Hannah, her old enemy. The two women raise their separate families, one legitimate and the other bastard. As each woman sets out to destroy the other, the families are brought to the edge of disaster.

Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of 15 in Hobart. Together, they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood.

Enter a dark and dangerous world . . .Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese young man who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for Samuel Oswald Wing, 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, the illegitimate daughter of a Japanese officer and a Chinese mother who abandoned her on the doorstep of a Catholic orphanage. With no family or connections, this beautiful young woman is powerless to resist the evil influence of Beatrice Fong, a manipulative businesswoman, who, in league with the Wing brothers, lures her into the dark and dangerous international trade in sex workers and heroin trafficking involving the American CIA. Simon, an unlikely hero, must save her at any cost.