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The Secret Archipelagos - Jason Pugh A thriller set in modern day Australia. A young female journalist discovers the truth of Australia's South East Asian crime filled archipelagos and struggles to prove her story as government secret services target her. A sci-fi action-thriller circa 2517. A government assassin wakes from a 500 year cryostasis, only to find the world split into the two warring factions of Science vs Fanaticism, and that one side wants him dead. Out of Nowhere - Matthew Barker When near tragedy brings Ed and Kelvin together, their love is tested by Kelvin's refusal to "come out", terrified of being the first AFL player in history to ever do so. A handsome but haunted man arrives in a small coastal town on a mission to confront the mother who abandoned him as a child, but his plans become complicated when he falls in love with a lonely single mother, and a devastating crime threatens to shatter his one true chance at happiness. Gloria and Hassin's relationship has reached a breaking point but before it ends they decide to take one last trip together, back to where they first met, to say their final goodbye. On their journey to Buenos Aires, they begin to remember why they fell in love and Hassin is left to decide if parting ways is really what he wants, whilst Gloria wrestles with the decision to tell him about her terminal illness. Nudes, Taboos and Black Tattoos - Annie Cossins Rich, gorgeous, Alice Penrose watches her world unravel when Jonathan reveals the clues to her past in his new art exhibition, Nudes, Taboos & Black Tattoos, his payback to a woman who settled for what she didn’t love. Adam Richards takes on an offer to merge his accounting firm with impressive entrepreneur Michael Sither's, but everything turns to power plays and Adam finds the firm and his life unravelling as Sither's behaviour turns sinister. The Root Of All Evil - Colin France Sydney 1952. Steff Berkowitz, a war criminal posing as a refugee, is threatened with exposure when he discovers the proceeds of a daring boxing stadium robbery. A socially isolated dream programmer working for a company specialising in personalised dream implantation starts to confuse dreamstate and reality. Far North Queensland, 1949: Elizabeth Morgan, a young, indentured Aboriginal maid, stumbles into a rainforest clearing and finds a fortune inside the wreck of a light plane and decides to leave her boss and suffocating small town forever. Imagine you were born in a drought and have never seen the rain. In fact you’re completely terrified of water. And you’re a duck. You Can Never Go Home Again - Nigel Karikari Mike, the state's third-best hitman, embarks on a road trip to track down his birth parents in a darkly comic but heartwarming journey. Sweet River Road - Clive Meltzer A house mover hijacks a cottage in an effort to 'take on' the separated wife he still loves, but his journey nearly destroys both cottage and relationship. Anya, the second in command of the spacecraft Knowledge, wakes from many years of 'long sleep' to discover that she and her fellow explorers are in orbit around their destination: the planet Orthetra. Get Out Of Here - Jonathan Empson Danny is the tame IT geek of a deceptively genial nightclub owner with fingers in various shady operations, and is now in the frame for $2 million in missing cash. Diving For Poland - Andrea Rogers 15-year-old Rosy doesn't fit in. Trapped in suburbia, she discovers her late grandfather's diary, all written in Polish, and 18-year-old Alec offers to translate its secrets for her. Everyday teenager Georgia starts to notice that the new iBerry is turning her friends into iZombies, and must team up with hipster frenemy Cody and her gun-toting grandma to survive the iPocalypse and save her father. The Devil's Veins - Tony D'Aquino Fearless adventurer Nate leads a group of his childhood friends in search of a mythical lost goldmine in the Australian outback. But adventure turns to terror as, from deep in the mine, a relentless evil emerges. After foiling a thief's getaway, a suburban housewife has 48 hours to save herself and her timid husband from a vengeful crime lord. Her only chance: commit two perfect crimes... robbery and murder. Zombie Wedding - Steve Mitchell A new species of bee that is resistant to death, called "Zom-Bees", is released on a tropical island where a wedding is taking place. When a guest is stung, the virus spreads and a reluctant groom is faced with marrying a zombie unless he can find a way off the island alive. Successful single mother and documentary filmmaker Samantha learns that her own mother decades ago in New Guinea decades earlier promised the soul of her future grandchild, Samantha's daughter Ruth, in return for some black magic. Be Still, My Beating Heart - Phil Enchelmaier Tim comes to the rescue of Melissa, his son's ex-girlfriend, when he witnesses her stabbing her latest boyfriend in self-defense. As three ferocious brothers cry murder, Tim and Melissa flee to the Gold Coast. Johnny McCarter, 37, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. With mere weeks to live, he has no family, no friends, and no-one will mourn him when he's dead and buried. McCarter is also a professional hitman, and plans to go out in style. Young Evie Larkin is lost in hostile Northern Queensland bushland in 1967. Half-caste Aboriginal park ranger and local tracker Jack Witham leads a rescue mission through Yirrmbal (taboo) Land against his Elders' wishes to find her. The Long Fade - James Melchior Maggie Monroe (72), grand dame of English theatre, decides to return to Australia to reconnect with her twin brother Charlie who is languishing in a nursing home suffering from late-stage Alzheimer's disease. After the shooting deaths of his wife and daughter, Ben is a shattered man, full of self-loathing and bitterness as he tries to piece together some reason behind his loss. When a games entrepreneur releases his highly controversial game 'Kidnap', it unleashes a public frenzy, the kidnapping of a celebrity's daughter and of his own brother... Privacy issues and greed clash as the public becomes the paparazzi. A comedy about a young woman, struggling to protect sharks from human prejudice, who finally learns that being prejudiced makes more sense. An ambitious tow truck driver struggles to save his family when his violent feuding with a rival towing firm unearths his past involvement in a murder. An eccentric comedy about lonely Penelope and her two oddball girlfriends chasing both the dream of friendship and an arty lizard owner named Rupert. A 15 year old runaway is a boxer fighting for a home, and a normal life. Weightless is the vibrant and tangled love story of a broken family and an 11 year old girl who thinks she can piece them back together by having a child of her own. WILL is a workaholic marketing genius. He’s technology obsessed. And he’s falling apart. When Will learns he has inherited an abandoned bank in Lethean, a forgotten dairy town, he embarks on a journey to discover the building, the town and where his life might have gone wrong. Will makes a series of discoveries including love, a secretive time-capsuled town and that old habits die hard. Curse of the Swampies - Steve Carter, Antoinette Rydyr and Paul Elliott There are monsters living among us! Swampies - a bizarre race of female predators that assimilates men to propagate its species. The Government’s misguided social experiment in co-existence has plunged the idyllic township of Epsilon Valley into a state of high tension. Within this climate of fear and denial, Mike, a defiant cop, is determined to save his estranged son, Riley, from the snare of the lascivious swampy, Ursa. Mike’s actions will impact his family, the community and challenge the very concept of life and death. How do you fight your worst enemy, if that enemy... is within? The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion A socially-inept genetics professor’s search for the perfect wife takes an unexpected turn when the least-suitable candidate enlists him in a quest to find her father through surreptitious DNA testing. Return Engagement - Tony Morphett Frankie Turillo is a cat burglar who breaks into an abandoned mansion and finds a 1920’s flapper, Amanda Lane, lying in suspended animation in a glass casket. Overcome by her beauty, he kisses her, she wakes and Frankie’s hopes and plans are never going to be the same again. WINSTON MCLEAN, 12, is the world’s smartest kid and its youngest astronaut. During his first mission - with his dog Fluffy and piratical friend Katie stowing away – his spacecraft is sabotaged and crash lands on an alien planet, whose inhabitants work all the time, no time for play. The three will only make it back home if they can depose the tyrannical leader, foil a plan to destroy Earth with a giant umbrella, and if Winston can learn the one thing he has never had time for - how to have fun! Up Here - Jim ShomosWhen you’ve had two dream marriages, choosing your eternal soulmate in Heaven is one Hell of a dilemma! The loss of a loved one is hardest on the one who is left behind…especially when you are a sock. The Non-Believers - Steve Mitchell A cynical insurance assessor is sent to reject a farmer's claim for stolen cows, but finds the entire town is convinced they were taken by aliens and he'll lose his job if he can't find an alternative explanation in time. One Million Words - Vince Bailey A dying man wanting to finish writing the book he began years earlier develops a dangerous friendship with a young art student who helps him realise that some dreams are never meant to be. |