Adam Courtenay
Adam Courtenay is the author of several Australian popular history books including the best-selling The Ship that Never Was. My Father Bryce is his eighth book.
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Adam Courtenay
Adam Courtenay is a Sydney-based author and business journalist with 30 years’ experience in print newspapers and magazines. He has worked in both Australia and the UK for the Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review.
He is the author of the popular narrative history books, The Ship that Never Was, The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter, and Three Sheets to the Wind. His latest book on history, Mr Todd’s Marvel, is about Charles Todd, the man behind Australia’s Overland Telegraph Line.
Adam has also walked some of the world’s most enthralling trails, including following Hannibal’s footsteps over the Alps, the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea and the Camino Primitivo in Spain. He has also climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and to Everest Base Camp. His greatest interest is in writing about forgotten journeys that made a difference to our history.
His latest book is the highly acclaimed My Father Bryce, a memoir of his father, the iconic Australian writer Bryce Courtenay. It is his eighth book.
Festival Events
My Father Bryce: Adam Courtenay in Conversation
DATE March 28 TIME 1:00 pm WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X320 Book nowOur Fathers: Adam Courtenay, Mandy Sayer, and S. Shakthidharan
DATE March 29 TIME 1:00 pm WHEREHunter Room Newcastle City Hall Book nowBY THE ARTIST
