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'A thief tries to extort money from an art owner. The criminal thinks he'd got the upper hand, but the owner's representative – a tough, shrewd woman – is determined to turn the tables on him.

'A previously unpublished story by the late, great Peter Temple.

'The Price by Peter Temple with Claudia Karvan and Mark Coles Smith'.

Source: Radio National Fictions.

'A fly fisher meets a barmaid in the mountains. He doesn't realise at first, but the two of them share a sinister secret.

'Immersion by Cate Kennedy with Claudia Karvan'.

Source: Radio National Fictions.

'A desperate man borrows money from a bikie gang, with terrifying consequences. The bikies force him to make 'one' delivery for them — but will he every really be free?

'The Delivery by Paddy O'Reilly with Mark Coles Smith'.

Source: Radio National Fictions.

'The death of a dog has terrible consequences. When the 'mad rooter' is slaughtered, a young girl takes charge...'

Source: Radio National Fictions.

'A journalist searches for the king of slam poetry, L. Chapman, whose followers swallow his grandiose ideas after they swallow his trademark drug, Blank. L. Chapman takes their money and causes social and syntactic chaos — but will he meet with poetic justice?'

Source: ABC Radio National.

'A water conference turns nasty when its Indigenous participants demand justice. Charlie — a young woman from a remote community — finds comfort in the arms of a beautiful German stranger, who brings her to her knees with desire. And then, someone dies...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Two young lawyers return to the town where they grew up to surf a wave of ice addiction, defending a generation of hopeless junkies from the law and from themselves. But ice doesn't only tempt the weak and the poor...'

Source: ABC Radio National.