Cirrus@Austlit

'Adam Briggs , 33, is a hip-hop artist, comedy writer, record label owner, actor and newly published children’s book author.' (Introduction)

'Botanical artist and ‘intrepid female explorer’ Ellis Rowan was once a household name. Now, a new biography is bringing her neglected paintings to new generations, writes ROSEMARY NEILL'

'If fiction is the early draft of history, our love-and-death relationship with animals is about to become far more complicated, writes Stephen Romei'

'In his new novel, Ghost Species, James Bradley walks the tightrope between ideas and entertainment, revisiting a theme that has dominated his writing of late: the possibility of Earth’s environmental ruin.' (Introduction)

'Arnold Zable opens his new book, The Watermill, with a Chinese proverb: “The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory.” Chinese proverbs are usually read as profound and timeless truths, but this seems an odd one for the Melbourne writer to have chosen.' (Introduction)

'Connor is an Australian bloke in his early 30s living by his wits in India. He’s in India but he has knocked about the world for so long it could just as easily be Thailand, or Cambodia, or Colombia.' (Introduction)

'These days, I find myself acutely aware of borders and boundaries. Everywhere, rigid lines have replaced permeable, flexible ones: the lines between nations and states, of course, but also those between ourselves and others.' (Introduction)