Currency Press: 215 books

When a young girl is murdered at the hands of one of her male contemporaries, what is the aftermath? How will her friends cope? How can such violence be understood? A Property of the Clan deals with these issues with honesty, sensitivity and intelligence.

While Tom is away, an old boyfriend pays a surprise visit to his wife at home. Her plans for a candlelit reunion go awry when her highly stressed neighbour and her mother drop in. Winner of the Gold AWGIE Award.

As protesters march against the Vietnam War, boys in a Catholic school prepare for their final exams. One student paints an anti-war mural in the cadet drill hall and is forced to confront the consequences of his action.

Spanning several decades and three generations, this compelling play exposes some of the darker moments in the histories of two Irish Catholic families.

Kane and I were both rising stars. I was rising to the top of the hand-modelling world and Kane was doing his plays. Kane got his first action film and I became his double. We clicked. Everyone said so.Kane is one of the world’s biggest movie stars. His body double has been there from the start,...

An acutely observed but tender-hearted account of relationships and behaviour in a suburban pub bistro on a Friday night.Cast : 2M, 3F

*‘Back in Kenya—in the camps—they say we can stay there for free. But everybody wants something. The journalists want our stories; the NGOs want us to sing in their choirs; the SPLA wants our sons as soldiers. The spirits of our ancestors want us to honour them...’ Maggie Stone is a...

The past is what you make it. John saw his brother Michael die. He seems to have forgotten it, until now. His brother Peter saw it too, but remembers things differently. Together, they revisit the past in search of a common truth. But this search has terrifying, unexpected consequences for...

Shaun the Shearer just wants to give smokin’ haircuts to sheep; it’s his calling. Unfortunately the other shearers on the station don’t like Shaun’s new-fangled ways—he even has a sheep-sheep instead of a sheep-dog! Cast from his shearing role, Shaun and his partner Pete the Sheep set up...

Liz has retreated to the mountains from the furore created by her latest book. Her husband Gareth is driving to visit her but is shaken when a woman runs into the path of his car—the consequences for all three adults are far-reaching.

In his latest play, *Rupert, Australia’s best known and multi-award winning playwright David Williamson tackles the rise and rise of ex-Australian citizen and one of the planet’s most powerful, influential and feared men, Rupert Murdoch. Spanning most of Murdoch’s lifetime—from his...

Written over a period of ten years from 1985, The Ghosts Trilogy follows the lives of a group of young Latvians who emigrate to North Queensland in 1948. The chronicle of their struggles over 45 years is paralleled by the narrative detailing the unsuccessful journeys made by German explorer Ludwig...

"Failure is not on the whiteboard."Feel like you’re drowning in paper work? Beaten by the impenetrable weight of office bureaucracy? Adrift in a sea of jargon? You’re not alone. Andrew, former rock muso and new CEO of youth music organisation, Staccato, was parachuted in to save the...

Radiance is an exuberant Black Sabbath for three great Indigenous dames. Cressy, Nora and Mae are half-sisters with little in common except the ghosts of their childhood. They gather in the tropical Queensland landscape for their Mum's funeral. These three sisters are a force of nature, and they haven't...