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Adam Courtenay

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in Sydney, Australia

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https://www.hachette.com.au/adam-courtenay/

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Memoir, History, Nonfiction

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Adam Courtenay is a Sydney-based writer and journalist. He has had a long career in the UK and Australia, writing for papers such as the Financial Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review and the UK Sunday Times. He is the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller Bryce Courtenay and the author of several Australian histories, including The Ship that Never Was, Three Sheets to the Wind and Mr Todd's Marvel.
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Average rating: 4.13 · 1,122 ratings · 178 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Ship that Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History 4.03 avg rating — 477 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country 4.28 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Sheets to the Wind 4.16 avg rating — 196 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Father Bryce 4.22 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Rubber: How the Amazon Died 3.69 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mr Todd's Marvel: How one man telegraphed Australia to the modern world 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amazon Men it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grand Mistresses of the Amazon it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Stone: Bounty Hunter Book # 6: "The Ghost of Willy McClury:" : Old West action and adventures of Bounty Hunter and Special U. S. Deputy Marshal Jake Stone.

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Adam Courtenay made a comment on Shelley Dark’s review of My Father Bryce " 'Confession would have made Bryce fallible. Insistence made him unreachable'. Just perfect summation. You must be a writer! ...more "
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Adam Courtenay made a comment on Seán’s review of My Father Bryce " Thankyou Sean. Really think you 'got it'. Much obliged ...more "
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Adam Courtenay liked Isabel Cropley's review of My Father Bryce: "Memoirs are not a genre I usually pick up. But I really enjoyed this book. So readable - I ate it up over three nights. It wasn't just a memoir but a study of the personality of a great but complicated man from a son's perspective. A study of the effe" Read more of this review »
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The love the author has for her mother Mira and the irrepressible love Mira had for those around her, quite simply radiates from the pages of this book. If she was a holocaust survivor - and she was - Mira lived as if she never knew it. She is a test ...more
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What really gob smacked me in this book was the similarity of experience - 35 women from totally different backgrounds reciting the same treatment, the same fears, the same feeling of unbridled hatred. And, of course, the hypocrisy of the so-called e ...more
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