Australia's best loved author and speaker

Bryce Courtenay is one of Australia's greatest success stories. An internationally-acclaimed best-selling author and business man, as a speaker and storyteller he has no equal.

Bryce encourages you to "dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown way". It is a challenge that has driven his own life. Firstly, during an advertising career that spanned 30 years, it helped him win a string of local and international advertising awards. He then re-invented himself as novelist.

His first novel The Power of One was an international best-seller. Translated into 11 languages and with sales of over two million copies, the story is powerful and the imagery rich and emotive. Much more than a gripping tale, The Power of One is a compelling testimony to Bryce Courtenay's ability as a storyteller.

More outstanding books have followed, including April Fool's Day - the biography of Damon, Bryce's youngest son who died of medically-acquired AIDS.

The Potato Factory, launched in September 1995, was Bryce's first novel set in Australia. It is now the highest selling work of fiction in hardback ever published in Australia and was re-published five times in its first six weeks. The first work in a trilogy, it was followed by Tommo & Hawk and Solomon's Song.

Bryce has also worked with direct marketing guru Ian Kennedy to produce The Power of One to One—an invaluable business text book.

In 1995 Bryce was awarded an AM in the Order of Australia.

Bryce Courtenay is a storyteller who weaves a powerful personal message into his corporate presentations. He asks you to remember when you lay on your back in the grass, looking at the clouds and dreaming of what you would do when you grew up. Bryce believes that if you think it, you can do it. Thousands have taken up Bryce's challenge and faced life and work with a new determination and vigour.