Joel Drabble

Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.

Set in 90s Country Queensland, Granite Highway follows Alice, a lonely motel receptionist, who has a strange encounter with a guest during the mysterious disappearance of a young woman.

After discovering a self help book written by his estranged father, a high school student begins to distance himself from his mother and his girlfriend in pursuit of his newly acquired ambitions.

A female performer, naked in a bathtub on stage, is shocked and angered to find that a male performer, also naked, has appeared in the bathtub with her.

A closeted, Aboriginal aspiring boxer attempts to step out from his father’s shadow and forge his own path.

Two spies spend an emotional evening together before one must leave on a dangerous mission - or so he says...

Earth. 2038. ISOLIS are working to create the perfect artificial intelligence so humans will never have to work again.

A professional novelist struggles to resolve an increasingly burdensome family situation, and his relationship with his partner, all the while attempting to finish a new book that encapsulates his situation.