Reed: 2049 books

Uncle Charlie likes kids. He likes kids so much he even has his own television show just for kids and a toy store with every kind of toy a kid could want. Uncle Charlie’s toy store is five-year-old Daniel’s favorite place. Right up until Uncle Charlie shows Daniel the kind of toys he’s...

‘Life’s a cow of a thing!’ a stage play by Bill Reed and Ron Edwards. You can take five locals virtually locked out of their Outback pub by a bunch of city-slickers up from Sydney who, deep into the grog, start offering money for the best local yarn. You could take it that these five, gathered...

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 postgraduate in his (Henry’s) own home. He had a housekeeper until she left in built-up disgust claiming...

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. Part of his silence was the guilt of being on the end of what was then undoubtedly a child-racketeering...

‘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 small mining community, and Bunting, the old-timer, the ‘humpy’. The setting of the action deep...

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,...

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’t seen her in 18 years and she is on the other side of the world working in an Amsterdam hotel with little time to listen to an excuse for a...

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 Paper Burke’s Company Truganinni Bullsh (including More Bullsh) Cass Butcher Bunting Just Out...

Paradise. A wind-swept mining town on a far-flung planet, and the latest stop for Samuel, a burned-out vid reporter stuck on the human interest circuit. Paradise. A town on the edge of the Big Nothing, the black emptiness between galaxies. Paradise. A town with a chilling secret. A secret...

Grab a copy of NINE of the wildest and weirdest cat stories that you have ever come across. Fantasy, mystery and true-to-life tales of cat wonder. "Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience." - Pam Brown "There is, incidentally,...

A heartwarming story of redemption from Annie Reed, the award-winning author of "Reunion." The old gods left the earth long ago, yet Hera remained behind, forgotten and abandoned. Once the haughty wife of Zeus himself, now she wanders the streets, just one more haggard old woman among...

Christmas comes early for private investigator Dee and her partner, the grumpy but drop-dead-gorgeous elf Dizzy G, when Santa's elves hire Diz and Dee to find Santa's missing stand in. Santa's taken a sabbatical, and only one elf at the North Pole can fill the big man’s shoes. An elf who’d rather...

The Spinster Book Myrtle Reed, american author, poet, journalist, and philanthropist (1874-1911) This ebook presents «The Spinster Book», from Myrtle Reed. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK...

A remarkable story of one woman’s struggle against poverty and oppression from Annie Reed, the award-winning author of PRETTY LITTLE HORSES.Spanning forty years, “The Shape of a Name” follows Anoosheh, a little girl orphaned during the war in Afghanistan. Rescued from a refugee camp where...