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‘I not only write books. I am this book. The actual person or persons.’------------ After a flash flood in 1965 an elderly man became trapped down a Sydney parkland storm drain. Children discovered him but did not tell their parents. Instead they fed him a biscuit and a bottle of water...

Here are the award-winning or noted short-form plays whose productions range from a few minutes to lengthy one-acters. Each inclusion in this collection has been selected by the Australian Script Centre to be listed for viewing or purchase on its website Australianplays.org.These twelve plays...

Extinction is foreverwhen it puts the bite on you--------------Almost before the current book/film/TV boost to closeted vampires, there was Ihe, the vampire-wolfman. Almost before the current book/film/TV boost to closeted werewolves, there was Ihe, the wolfman-vampire. And this goes to show extinction...

‘I f you are a famous-enough author long presumed dead and you keep sending notes to your Publisher through some far-off precocious teenage girl who says she’s never heard of you – and the frightening predictions in those notes keep coming true -- then you can’t be dead. Can you? For...

Extinction is forever, give or take a day.. And there’s always Redemption trying to take up that one precious minute of your time.------------------------------------This is a collection of mainly nationally award-winning or highly-commended short stories.-------------------------------------Bill...

‘You have the stigmata,’ his grip firming when she tries to pull her hand away. ‘So have I. The scar across my eye, you see.’--------------Take a hermit, innocent, Christ-like, withdrawn, foreign-looking, non-English-speaking; then place him where the innocent are getting raped in an insular...

‘Don’t let them cut me up! Bury me behind the mountains!’ Fear, violence and race prejudice are themes with which we are all sadly familiar. Bill Reed’s three plays-on-a-theme, based on the life and times of Truganinni -- the supposed last Tasmanian Aborigine and, at the end, so socially visible...

In the cover photo here, the Golden Receiver by any other name only deigned to look down at me directly because I had meaty bites stuck up my nose. And how come I’m the only one to have aged since?-------------Ed: following is the Thomas-Nelson-Australia’s 1977 blurb for the original edition,...

He was so good at Serious Matters but the trouble was people never took him seriously, let alone kept dying around him. Nor did it help that he was the wrong person in his body, such that the precocious girl-child who claimed to be the better fit kept nagging him while they bobbed along the shipping...

This is a rollicking play about one of the founding and/or foundling fathers of Western Australia… Thomas Peel, first cousin of the then British Prime Minister. He was the leader of the first organized group of settlers, but from the moment he arrived on western shores, he became, as it were, rooted...

From writer Shane McKenzie comes three tales running the gamut from a classic horror story of three boys stumbling onto a most unique photograph in the woods to an act of revenge gone astronomically wrong (or right?) to Siamese twins with very poor social skills. Creepy, unusual, and grotesque, McKenzie...

Three very unusual deaths that take place in Tangier, Cadiz and Gibraltar lead an international investigator and her team to visit the Viagra club in London, unmask a pair of killers in southern England and rescue a child out in the country. There were two of them. The blonde American they...

File Size: 578 KB Print Length: 121 pages Publication Date: December 26, 2016 Language: English

In England, 1596, a law has been passed criminalizing the gypsy lifestyle causing animosity towards travelers. In a small town in the middle of England the Mayor hatches a plot that will rid the town of the gypsies that have visited every year. By accusing the gypsies of witchcraft the Mayor persecutes...