AustLit

'Everything I'm about to tell you is the truth. Or at least a version of very real lies I have told myself. All I remember is the rain. It's grey. I'm hunched over in my car, illuminated by my iPhone screen, furiously googling. It's only 4 pm but it feels like nighttime. Melbourne winters can do that.' (Publication abstract)

'Twenty years on – when Laura Gibson returns to the beachside paradise of Pearl Bay to attend the birth of her estranged daughter’s baby – rising seas levels, community cover-ups and some very stormy weather conspire to convince her this town now needs her as much as she needs it.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Five Bedrooms 'revolves around five strangers, all misfits, who find themselves at a singles table at a wedding. After an excess of alcohol they decide the solution to all their problems is buying a big five bedroom house together. Stewart is Liz, a once high-flying lawyer who has fallen from grace. Peacocke is Ben, a tradie who lives in a caravan. Younane is Heather, a middle-aged woman who is at the crossroads of her life and landlord to Ainsley (Robertson). Ainsley is secretly in love with Lachlan (Sheridan), who has a toxic marriage with Melanie (Jenkinson). Joseph is Harry, an Indian surgeon who cannot bring himself to tell his mother that he’s gay.'

Source: IF Magazine (https://www.if.com.au/peter-templeman-explains-why-hoodlums-five-bedrooms-rings-true/). (Sighted: 13/05/2019)

Comedy-drama about two twenty-something best friends who reinvent themselves after experiencing chronic illness.

'A comedy drama which follows a group of girls who abandon the sidelines to start their football club's first all-girl team.'

Source: Production blurb.

'On the eve of being admitted to a nursing home, a space-obsessed elderly man unearths a mysterious object from the sky.'

Source: Production company blurb.