AustLit

'Three Hours meets The Accomplice and The Silent Patient, The Negotiator is an edge-of-your-seat, heart-wrenching thriller that asks- can you ever free yourself from your past?

'SHE'S MEANT TO SAVE LIVES. NOT DESTROY THEM.

'Police officer Tia recently failed her exam to become a negotiator- her dream job. But when a peaceful climate change protest at a London museum escalates, and one of the radicalised members takes Tia and others hostage, she realises this is her chance to prove she has what it takes.

'Only not everyone gets out of the siege alive.

'Three years later, Asher is being released from prison for the part he played at the museum that day. He's always maintained his innocence, but when someone starts threatening the survivors, leading one of them to take their own life, Tia isn't convinced Asher is telling the whole truth. Refusing to have another death on her conscience, Tia begins to investigate.

'But Tia was a hostage that day too... and now she's a target.' (Publication summary) 

'The most dangerous person in the courtroom isn't the killer. . .

'A childhood spent moving around the world left Revelle Lee with an unusual gift - the ability to fluently speak 11 languages. Now, Revelle spends her days translating for witnesses, victims, and the accused across London crime scenes and courtrooms. It's a stressful job, though not as stressful as the process she is currently going through to adopt little boy, Elliot. She is determined to be the mother to him that she never had, and to make up for her own past mistakes.

'But when it seems a murderer will go free, Revelle puts the adoption and her job at risk, deliberately mistranslating the alibi to ensure he is found guilty. No one can ever find out that she interfered or she will lose her son and her livelihood.

'The problem is someone already knows what she's done. And they want justice of their own.' (Publication summary)

'Since 2015, the Australian government has raised an estimated $2.1bn in debt from Centrelink clients in a manner which the Federal Court has since ruled ‘unlawful’. Known as the Robodebt scandal, the scheme affected over 400,000 Australians, including some of the nation’s most vulnerable people. Inspired by real cases, Brooke Robinson’s bad machine is a fictionalised look at the human cost of an inhuman system, and our vanishing social safety net.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Where do you go when you don’t have a home?

'Coming home one night, Sandra learns she has two weeks to move out. It’s nothing personal, her housemates just have a friend who needs somewhere to stay. No choice but to pack up and find another sharehouse. But Sandra is in her 50s. And affordable places are hard to find in the ruthless Sydney rental market. In one interview after another, she contorts herself into the shape of what she thinks people want in a housemate. But with each rejection she becomes increasingly desperate, losing control of her life in frighteningly simple ways.

'Brooke Robinson has written an unflinching examination of homelessness, asking how willing we are, as a society, to take care of our most vulnerable. As the housing crisis worsens, what happens to people like Sandra – to those who don’t own a home, who are getting older and don’t have family to fall back on?

'Funny until it’s not, Good Cook. Friendly. Clean. is a devastating portrait of someone slipping through the cracks. It’s not a comfortable play—it’s a critical one. And under the direction of Marion Potts, looking away is not an option.'

Source: Griffin Theatre 2018 season.

'A man abandons the victim of a dog attack early one morning. A woman uncovers a hidden secret in the x-rays of her patient. A son sits in a wheelchair.'

'Good parents become bad people in Brooke Robinson's new poetic thriller Animal/People. A sweaty jog through a brutal suburbia, Robinson’s powerfully confessional writing style transforms the question of for whom we are responsible into a much darker riddle, brought to life by James Dalton (Kill the PM, Mr Kolpert).' (Source: eventfinda website)