AustLit

'Nina’s waters have broken early.

'She knows it’s a girl.

'She doesn’t know if she wants it.

'Nina lies in a pool of her own amniotic fluid in Darwin Hospital, alone and paralysed by indecision. Slowly losing her grip on reality, she is visited by her best friend who dreams of a different life for her, and an apparition of her mother as a young woman who will do anything to be forgiven. And maybe that thing slithering around in her ultrasound isn’t a baby at all…

'Ciella Williams’ haunting writing balances power, trauma, and unlikely friendships with care and humour in this funny and heartbreaking instant Australian classic.

'Conceived just days after giving birth to her own daughter, Williams’ Hush cuts through our cultural narratives about motherhood – instead diving into the real fears and harsh realities of young women faced with this transformation.'

Source: Brown's Mart.

'Take a cruise to the other side of the apocalypse!

'A collection of some of the world’s wealthiest ‘preppers’ are cruising to New Babylon to escape climate catastrophe. If environmental cataclysm is getting you down, join us on board!

'All is not necessarily what it may seem on this voyage to the promised land, but remember whatever happens: we’re all in this together!'

Source: Brown's Mart.

'Alma lives on a spectacular but debt-ridden cattle station somewhere in the middle of nowhere. The cattle are long gone and no income is coming in but she refuses to give up her home. Out of the blue a wealthy stranger appears bearing gifts. Alma spies a plan of salvation. Hope is on the horizon and prosperity is in the air … or is a thunderous storm of tumult rolling her way?

'Hilarity and tragedy sweep the stage as these beguiling and feisty characters battle for security in their unstable world.'

Source: Brown's Mart.

'Coal Face is set in an unnamed town, that could be any mining town in regional Australia. It centres around now orphaned adult siblings, Jemima and Josh. Josh is working on the mine, like his father before him and lives in the old family home. Jemima has returned to join the group protesting the mine. On the protest, she meets a traditional owner who is intimately linked with the family.'

Source: Brown's Mart.

'The Daly River Girl depicts writer Tessa Rose's personal story, starting from growing up with various non-indigenous [sic] foster families in Perth, Western Australia, an eternity away from her natural mother, family, and Country of Daly River, Northern Territory.

'Her story speaks from the heart and openly expresses her pain, anger and joy. We follow her journey from adolescence into womanhood, her first love, the cruelty of domestic violence, her resilience to overcome the many obstacles on her own.'

Source: Brown's Mart program.

'God's Waiting room evokes asylum seeker Hamed Mokri's passage to Hope and Possibility in a tiny boat upon high and stormy seas, with only an Angel of Death as company.

'The Angel's task is to make sure Hamed dies before he reaches safe shores.

'An allegory for a world which has closed its door on humanity, God's Waiting Room explores themes of resilience, humanity, hope and displacement -- posing the central question: As a global community, where do we go from here?'

Source: Brown's Mart program.

'A gang of bushrangers cleverly disguised as a band of travelling musicians tour the Territory, hypnotising their audiences and taking their wallets.

'Hot on their heels, a mysterious swagman pursues them, trying to bring them to justice.'

Source: Brown's Mart program.