Reed Independent

Dorothy is married to a south Indian surgeon who has been shot in a gang-related murder in Melbourne. She knows nothing about what's behind this but she feels obliged to travel to her mother-in-law...

A humorous narrative writtenn for nthe stage around Ron Edwards' best-selling book 'Australian Yarns'Author: Bill Reed, Ron EdwardsPublisher: Reed IndependentPublication Date: May 30, 2015Number of...

... the Theatre of the Absurd and the Theatre of Cruelty are even more pervasively embodied in the plays of Alexander Buzo, Thomas Keneally and Bill Reed. In Buzo's case it is Absurdism which is...

Cass Butcher Bunting' begins with an explosion and a cave in down a mine shaft. Three miners are trapped there; Cass, the local golden boy, Butcher, the mentally-heavy, stay-at-home product of a...

You would have to wonder why a Rhodes Scholar, a VC winner and a Commissioner of Police named his son Frank E. R. Stein by way of a ha-ha 'monstrous joke'... or why he cackled derision every time his...

Ed: following is the Thomas-Nelson-Australia's 1977 blurb for the original edition, but here annotated, in italics, by the author for this reprint. 'Bill Reed's first novel is a celebration of the...

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...

He hadn't told his son he was adopted, nor that his son had a twin sister who hadn't been handed over with him when they travelled from Melbourne to India all that time ago to pick up both infants...

Henry had one good eye until the surgeon lost even that one's lens down some drain. He had a wife he could call his own until she started to shack up very noisily with some young turk Australian...

?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...

Stranded in his Sydney flat, the journalist John Rinner tries to explain his Dad-dud existence to his daughter by telephone. This is not easy since he hasn? seen her in 18 years and she is on the...

Blurb (Act I) PARSONS: I'm beginning to feel what his friends must have gone through when they were really seeing him off. The longer they wait, the more improbably it is that the bloody plane will...

A collection of mainly award-winning or hightly-commended short stories from national competitions. Extinction is forever, give or take a day. And there's always Redemption trying to take that one...

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...

Part Tamil, part Australian, John Tasker is an up-and-coming lawyer in the Attorney-General's Department. But after he has been visited by Inspector Charles Ekanayake on the trail of resurgent...

Annotation. 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...

Annotation. Bill and Billy are having marital problems but these pall when compared to the problems they have to face from their next door neighbour. If that wasn't enough, there is the general alarm...