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  • Lost Souls of the River Kwai

    Experiences of a British Soldier on the Railway of Death

    This is the moving story of a young man who found himself along with thousands of his comrades in the nightmare of Japanese captivity. Unlike so many (it is said that one Commonwealth POW died for every sleeper laid) Bill lived to tell the tale. Indeed it is remarkable that this story has not been told before, so graphic are Bill's memories of the hardships and horrors. The book goes on to ... Read more

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  • Water Workout

    by Bill Reed ...
    WATER EXERCISES FOR EVERYONE: NON-SWIMMERS AND SWIMMERSAs current as the day it was first floated as one of the very first, if not the first, international book of water-fitness regimes!Experience the pleasure of exercising in water.Use the pool as a general-age gym for: general day-by-day fitness beauty body building sports training and injury recovery pregnancy help aches and pains relief ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mr Siggie Morrison with his Comb and Paper

    by Bill Reed ...
    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 ever leave. They mouth platitudes to each other about every man having the unimpeachable right to die at home. They don't look into each other's eyes knowing that not one of them has even bothered to ... Read more

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  • The Wolfman of Oz

    by Bill Reed ...
    You could say man into wolf and wolf into man got blasted into existence. You could also say the Tasmanian Aborigines and the Tasmanian Wolf got blasted out of existence too. It's called extinction and it lasts forever and, when Ihe the wolfman did the sums of early Tasmania, it all added up. This was except for one thing… the existence of the truly last Thylacine Wolf hiding out somewhere life ... Read more

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  • The Storyteller's Shadows

    by Bill Reed ...
    The live-acted shadow play of today uses live actors to evoke fantasy combined with realism to illustrate a fully-rounded play narrated by a storyteller sitting in full audience view.It is not a puppet show. It does not demand actors contort themselves into amazing shapes like trees of elephants. It is a play-behind that theatrically lies in the unfurrowed field between mime and the theatre we ... Read more

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  • Auntie and the Girl

    by Bill Reed ...
    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 in Chennai to relate what little she does know. This, she dreads doing, not just because this once-Australian, everyone's 'auntie' has always turned a blithe deaf ear to her, but more because the old ... Read more

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  • The Wild Waves Whist

    by Bill Reed ...
    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 lanes of the Indian Ocean.He shouldn't have shouted 'Left!' when it should have been 'Right!' to ... Read more

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  • Me, the Old Man

    by Bill Reed ...
    '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 once a day for three weeks. When he was eventually rescued, the flesh on his legs had become putrescent. He could ... Read more

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  • Truganinni Inside Out

    by Bill Reed ...
    Seven years after King Billy's death, Truganinni stood alone, arguably the most important living relic of her Tasmanian race. She would walk the streets of Hobart Town, resembling Queen Victoria in her voluminous skirts and headdress. She quite enjoyed the curiosity and finger pointing wherever she went. And she could go anywhere.Towards the end, she appeared to bear no malice towards her race's ... Read more

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  • Tasker Tusker Tasker

    by Bill Reed ...
    John Tasker is a divided, but enjoined, man. Physically he is running from the law while hunting down his own father, just as his father used to track down the wild tuskers in Sri Lanka. At the same time, mentally, he is tracking down his murderous brother's enemies, imaginably or not, with a deadly efficiency.Adding to his confusion is how his indolent lawyer's job in the Attorney-General's ... Read more

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  • Living on Mars

    by Bill Reed ...
    A collection of six plays professionally performed but not yet published. They are:Living on MarsDaddy the 8thYou Want It, Don't You, Billy?Truganinni Inside OutAuntie and the GirlMirror, MirrorUnlike the other Bill Reed plays, none of these works collected here have been published by leading Australian book publishers or subsequently re-issued in print and ebook formats by Reed Independent. ... Read more

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  • Spouting Black Holes

    by Bill Reed ...
    SPOUTING BLACK HOLES is a collection of sevenof Bill Reed's most popular plays brought together in modernised form and language.The works collected here are:Mr Siggie Morrison with his Comb and PaperBurke's CompanyTruganinniBullsh (including More Bullsh)Cass Butcher BuntingJust Out of Your GroundYou Want It, Don't You, Billy?Each play has been 'modernised', in that the playwright has changed the ... Read more

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