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Brendan Cowell

Brendan is an award-winning writer, actor and director for television, theatre and film. He wrote the smash hit Ruben Guthrie for Belvoir St Theatre in 2009, and wrote and directed the film adaptation, winning an AWGIE for the screenplay. Brendan wrote two episodes of the multi award-winning series The Slap for which he won the AACTA Best Screenplay prize. He has been named the 'leading light amongst playwrights of his generation' (The Sun Herald) and has won the Patrick White Playwright's Award, the Philip Parsons Young Playwright's Award and the Griffin Award. His 11 plays have been produced all around the world. He was a writer on the acclaimed TV series Love My Way, in which he starred. Many of his episodes for Love My Way were nominated for Australian Writers Guild Awards (AWGIE) for Outstanding Screenplay. Brendan is based between New Zealand, Sydney and London, and yet remains a loyal Croa Sharks fan. Brendan's bestselling debut novel How It Feels was published by Pan Macmillan in 2010.

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Title:: Plum
Written by:: Brendan Cowell
Read by:: Brendan Cowell
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 8
Duration:: 9 hours 30 minutes
Published:: October 01 2021
Available Date:: October 01 2021
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781460789339
Genres:: Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; General Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda/HarperCollins audio

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Longlisted Indie Book Awards / Fiction 2022

The wildly impressive, raucously funny and deeply moving second title from award-winning writer, actor and director for television, theatre and film, Brendan Cowell.

Peter ‘The Plum’ Lum is an ex-footy star, living with his son and girlfriend in Cronulla. It’s a pretty cruisey life until he learns that he has developed a brain disorder from the thousand-odd head knocks he took during his career. According to his neurologist, Plum has to make some changes – right now – or it’s dementia, or even death. Reluctantly, Plum embarks on a journey of self-care and self-discovery – not easy when all he’s ever known is to go full tilt at everything. On top of this, he’s being visited by dead poets and discovers he has a special gift for the spoken word. With the friendship of Bukowski, Plath and some local misfits, Plum might just be able to stop hurting the ones he loves and, in doing so, find his true voice. Written with a roaring energy, a raucous humour and a poetic soul by award-wining writer, actor and director Brendan Cowell, Plum is a big-hearted, funny, angry and joyous novel of men, their inarticulate pain and what it takes for them to save themselves – from themselves.