BRYCE COURTENAY is the bestselling author of The Power of One, Tandia, April Fool’s Day, The Potato Factory, Tommo & Hawk, Jessica, Solomon’s Song, A Recipe for Dreaming, The Family Frying Pan, The Night Country, Smoky Joe’s Cafe, Four Fires and Matthew Flinders’ Cat.
The Power of One is also available in an edition for younger readers, and The Potato Factory, Tommo & Hawk and Solomon’s Song are available on one volume, The Australian Trilogy.
Bryce Courtenay was born in South Africa, is an Australian and has lived in Sydney for the major part of his life.
Roy Kyle was a typical Australian soldier, gripped by patriotism to defend King and country during the First World War. It was the war to end all wars.
Enlisting early and underage, Roy celebrated his eighteenth birthday in the trenches of Lone Pine, Gallipoli where over two and a half thousand Australians were killed or wounded. He was one of the last to be evacuated.