Louis Nowra

• Jul-2025
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Set in Paraguay during the 1860s War of the Triple Alliance. The megalomaniac President Lopez has married Madame Lynch, a Parisian courtesan. His ignorance and her egotism together bring ruin on the country and themselves. Against this violent backgr...

• Nov-2020
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In this collection acclaimed Australian author, playwright, screenwriter Louis Nowra shows his breathtaking range that takes us from Venice to Lord Howe Island, from the chaos of contemporary Moscow to Sydney high society, from Edwardian London to a ...

• Jan-2020
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In 1984, Detective Eric O'Malley investigated the bizarre deaths of a young couple, their bodies found naked by the side of a creek in Sydney's northern suburbs. Shortly before their demise, O'Malley learned, the pair had attended a swingers' part...

• Oct-2018
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This Much is True is a sequel to Summer of the Aliens and Cost  and completes the semi-autobiographical trilogy about Louis Nowra's surrogate protagonist. Now older, and possibly wiser, Lewis is a writer 'between divorces' and temporarily adrift...

• Oct-2016
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Black parachutes fall from the sky: young soldiers -- and a dog -- on a rescue mission in a remote part of Afghanistan. But the mission ends in chaos, and Mark and Prince embark on a perilous journey through enemy territory. Will they make it back to...

• May-2015
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Radiance is an exuberant black sabbath for three great Indigenous dames. Cressy, Nora and Mae are half-sisters with little in common except the ghosts of their childhood. They gather in the tropical Queensland landscape for Mum's funeral.  These...

• Sep-2013
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Two girls. Two tigers. Four years in the wild. TWO GIRLS survive a terrible flood in the Tasmania bush and are rescued by a pair of Tasmanian tigers who raise them in the wild. Their story of survival is remarkable, as they adapt to the life of ...

• Jan-2013
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An epic play about two young hikers who accidentally discover a lost community deep in the forests of Tasmania. Lost in time, the group clashes with the culture of modern Australia, with tragic consequences....

• Oct-2010
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• Nov-2008
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You have possessed me, let me go.An iceberg is towed through the Heads to the astonishment of colonial Sydney. As it melts, the iceberg is revealed as a tomb to the perfectly preserved body of a young sailor, who died forty years before. A man lost i...

• Apr-1992
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Set in 1971, Così is Louis Nowra's second semi-autobiographical play. Lewis has recently left university and takes up a job in a mental institution directing Mozart's Così Fan Tutte. Lewis, the non-participant, becomes emotionally involved with his...

• Jun-1989
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A woman from New Guinea who possesses supernatural powers travels to Australia to be with the leader Emo, then back to her homeland with him, and finds that his lust for power puts her in mortal danger...