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Lighten UpNicholas Brown, Sam McCool
John Green is an Anglo-Indian Australian actor who dreams big, but his coloured contacts hide the fact that his skin is more brown than white. His mum wants John to marry a white Aussie woman, but he falls in love with Indigenous woman Sandy. $25.99
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House + Amongst the Reeds: two playsSomalia Seaton, Chinonyerem Odimba
Somalia Seaton's House is a play about family, culture clash, memory and truth. When Pat returns to her childhood home after a five-year absence, she's ready to forgive her mother for the neglect she suffered at her hands, but Mama isn't ready to let the demons back into her home. In Chino Odimba's Amongst the Reeds, two friends scratch out a living on the margins of society. Oni and Gillian have made their home in a disused office block, finding ever… $24.99
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Tales of a City by the SeaSamah Sabawi
Tales of a City by the Sea uses poetry, tenderness and humour to explore the love between those who have choices, and those who do not. Language fails us when it comes to displacement and grief; yet Samah Sabawi’s language cracks grief open and remains present, like the sea. $25.99
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Maggie StoneCaleb Lewis
Maggie Stone is about loneliness and debt, the risk that comes from asking others for help and the cost of living a life owing nobody. $25.99
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MultitudesJohn Hollingworth
Bradford. On the eve of a Conservative Party Conference the country is in turmoil and one of its most multicultural cities awaits a visit from the Prime Minister. Kash, a liberal British Muslim, prepares his address to politicians about the state of the nation. His girlfriend Natalie, a recent convert to Islam, cooks for anti-war protesters gathered at the Town Hall. Lyn, her mother, moans to anyone who’ll listen about the decline of her cherished England. It’s all too much for… $23.99
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Norm and AhmedAlex Buzo
Still alarmingly relevant in the 21st century, Norm and Ahmed has earned its place as a classic of Australian theatre due to its timeless themes and the heightened language, performance style and concern with the behaviour of Australians, its origins and causes that characterised the New Wave. $25.99
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OdysseyAndreas Litras, John Bolton
Andreas Litreas weaves the stories of his family through the legend of Odysseus, the hero of the Trojan War. In this beautifully crafted autobiography we witness Greek tragedy, comedy and the everyday. $20.99
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Neighbourhood WatchLally Katz
A battle hardened, Hungarian-Australian World War survivor, Ana's bark is as ferocious as her German shepherd's. Catherine is her neighbour: twenty-something, curious and hopeful that a better world is on its way. From each other they gain a new understanding of friendship, and forge an alliance. $25.99
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Drawing the LineHoward Brenton
A vivid telling of the chaotic story of the partition that shaped the modern world. $27.99
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To Sir, With LoveE. R. Braithwaite Adapted by Ayub Khan Din
An uplifting story of the triumph of love, inspiration and hope against all odds, laced with the song and dance of austere 1940s Britain. $29.99
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