Cirrus@Austlit

'The stories of pioneering Australian women who sought adventures across the Pacific a century ago.'  (Introduction)

'Six characters whose lives intersect in a novel that takes the pulse of the times.'

'A dystopian novel that sees climate change erase mammalian life forms. What now?'

'Patricia Cornelius' play tackles consent, coercion and sexual violence in the AFL.'

'Australian fiction has long been dominated by the realist novel. A new wave of writers continue the avant-garde tradition—but are experimental and offbeat stories always destined to be relegated to a literary niche? '

'Australian horror films have always had a unique fascination with the continent’s landscape. Though the genre has evolved from the Ozploitation era into more complex territory, it remains moulded by the terra nullius myth and a colonial sense of disconnection from the land. '