Bill Reed

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1998
  • Latest Book:
    March 2021
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Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • Tusk

  • Lost Souls of the River Kwai

    This is the moving story of a young man who found himself, along with thousands of his comrades, in the nightmare of Japanese captivity. Before long he was a slave labourer on the notorious Burma Railway, living under the most atrocious conditions an...

  • Safe Harbor

  • Are You Human?

    ‘Those born from a womb, beings egg-begotten, Born out of moisture or spontaneously arising, May they rely on the excellent Taught Thing Instilled and resided in all lovely lusts.’ The mother of Jimmy Massey knew nothing about any Pieter Garel Sw...

  • Awash

    Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands; Curtsied when you have and kiss’d, The wild waves whist. He was so good at Serious Matters but the trouble was people kept dying around him. It didn’t help that the precocious teenager who claime...

  • Throw Her Back

    Smith, and then his son Terry, found they were just as snagged on Hindu's damning wheel as their forebears had been for over 170 years, until the family finally managed to carry on to Australia. The two of them thought they could ride belatedly to th...

  • 1001 Lankan Nights Book 1

    PLEASE NOTE: The issuing of this title has been delayed until 2018.Sire? Sire! Over here, in the boiling oils, Sire! Your Majesty, I know you think I speak drivel, but what can I do but affect mock humility and say I'm flattered you think so? Sure, t...

  • The 1001 Lankan Nights Book 2

    Please note: below is the jacket copy for both 1001 Lankan Nights Book 1 as well as 1001 Lanan Nights Book 2. Book 1 and 2 are available as separate books under separate ISBNs and through the same ebook and printed retail outlets. Sire? Sire Over he...

  • Passing Strange

    This is a selection of short stories, mainly of the status of winners or runners-up or highly-commended from national short-story competitions. Extinction is forever, give or take a day. Then there’s always Redemption trying to take up that one p...



  • Passing Strange: Short Stories

    A collection of mainly award-winning or hightly-commended short stories from national competitions. Extinction is forever, give or take a day. And there's always Redemption trying to take that one precious minute of your time....

  • Tasker Tusker Tasker

    "This secretive load I have shuffled around with..." ---------- 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....

  • Ihe

    Extinction is forever especially when it sinks its fangs into you Almost before the current book/film/TV boost to closeted vampires, there was Ihe, the vampire-wolfman. Almost before the current book/film/TV boost to closeted werewolves, there was Ih...

  • Stigmata

    'You have the stigmata, ' his grip firming when she tries to pull her hand away. 'So have I. The scar across my eye, you see.' -------------- Take a hermit, innocent, Christ-like, withdrawn, foreign-looking, non-English-speaking; then place him where...

  • Bullsh

    '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 b...

  • Burke's Company

    '… the Theatre of the Absurd and the Theatre of Cruelty are even more pervasively embodied in the plays of Alexander Buzo, Thomas Keneally and Bill Reed. In Buzo's case it is Absurdism which is especially apparent; in Keneally and Reed, Artaud...

  • Crooks

    You would have to wonder why a Rhodes Scholar, a VC winner and a Commissioner of Police named his son Frank E. R. Stein by way of a ha-ha ‘monstrous joke’… or why he cackled derision every time his eyes lit upon the boy; or why he showered more...

  • Dogod

    Ed: following is the Thomas-Nelson-Australia's 1977 blurb for the original edition, but here annotated, in italics, by the author for this reprint. 'Bill Reed's first novel is a celebration of the Australian language. 'Dogod' employs a language that ...

  • The Pipwink Papers

    You’d think that if he had the nerve to despoil Charles Dickens, he’d get the spelling of The Pickwick Papers right. It’s not even about The Pickwick Papers but the great man’s Great Expectations. He couldn’t even get that right. The uniden...

  • Cass Butcher Bunting

    '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,...



  • Mr. Siggie Morrison with his Comb and Paper

    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 o...

  • Truganinni

    'Don't let them cut me up! Bury me behind the mountains!'Fear, violence and race prejudice are themes with which we are all sadly familiar. Bill Reed's three plays-on-a-theme, based on the life and times of Truganinni - the supposed last T...

  • Spouting Black Holes

    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 CompanyTrug...

  • Auntie and the Girl

    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. T...

  • Daddy the 8th

    An ensemble of actors who are about to start rehearsing a play about the Moree race riots visit Endeavour Lane in Moree to get a feel of the lie of the land. This is where the young Aboriginal 'Cheeky' McIntosh was shot and killed during the infam...

  • Little She

    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...

  • Living on Mars

    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 othe...

  • Mirror, Mirror

    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 ho...

  • Truganinni Inside Out

    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 en...

  • You Want It, Don't You, Billy?

    Bill and Billy are having marital problems but these pall when compared to the problems they have to face from their next door neighbour. If that wasn't enough, there is the general alarm put out to be on the alert for a serial murderer thought to...



  • Shorts

    Here are the award-winning or noted short-form plays whose productions range from a few minutes to lengthy one-acters. Each inclusion in this collection has been selected by the Australian Script Centre to be listed for viewing or purchase on its...

  • Lankan 1001 Nights Part 1

    O King, his name mightn’t be Scheherazade, but if he was a she, it might well have been. You never know. And, anyway, to sing for his supper or else be despatched, the Talls-reteller must spin his cut-it-out ways to your royal self. If you had ev...

  • Lankan 1001 Nights Part 2

    Sire? Sire! Over here in the boiling oils, supply the foul smell, Sire! Your Majesty, I know you think I speak drivel, but what can I do but say how flattered I am that you think so? Sure, this mightn’t be the classic 1001 Arabian Nights, and ...

  • White Wi

    Unashamedly, here are sketches of some of the comical characters extracted out of just some of the stories roaming throughout the pages of the Lankan 1001 Nights… characters who do so with heart-and-souls you’d be mad to believe knowing that youâ...

  • Just Out of Your Ground

    This is a rollicking play about one of the founding and/or foundling fathers of Western Australia… Thomas Peel, first cousin of the then British Prime Minister. He was the leader of the first organized group of settlers, but from the moment he...

  • Wi

    You know I’d never lie to you. How could I?  It’s the Talls campfire and these are the oral-lit smoke trails that swirl about you, never to dribble drivel upon you.  You can be sure you’ll only get what’s inner-heard. I embellish you not...

  • The Shadow Teller's Plays

    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 contor...

  • The Wild Waves Whist

    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 kep...

  • Expatriates in Paris

    EXPATRIATES IN PARIS is an historical mystery set in the roaring 20s on the legendary Left Bank, brought to life through time, place and real-life writers Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos, Djuna Barne...

  • The Rhyming Cutlets of Pirip

    We cannot blame Charles Dickens for not meeting our national Arts treasure Philip P. Pirip, but:go blame yr rottern Fate;whos flushs beat yr faces straightsIt could be said, though, Dickens did lend his major characters to Philip P. Pirip, although &...



  • Lankan 1001 Nights Book 1

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    O King, his name mightn’t be Scheherazade, but if he was a she, it might well have been. You never know. And, anyway, to sing for his supper or else be despatched, the Talls-reteller must spin his cut-it-out ways to your royal self. If you had ...

  • The Wolfman of Oz

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    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...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bill Reed has published 41 books.

Bill Reed does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Rhyming Cutlets of Pirip, was published in March 2021.

The first book by Bill Reed, Tusk, was published in October 1998.

No. Bill Reed does not write books in series.
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