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.