Cirrus@Austlit

'The prolific songwriter and huge sports fan has a new compilation packed with songs about famous figures – including Warne, Adam Goodes and Eddie Betts' (Introduction)

'Tributes pour in for musician whose song Took the Children Away became the anthem of the stolen generations' 

'On the face of it, bringing Trent Dalton’s 471-page debut novel, Boy Swallows Universe, to the stage sounds impossible. The Brisbane-based author summarises his initial response to playwright Tim McGarry – who approached him with a proposal to adapt his massive manuscript before the book had even been published – as “good luck to you, mate”.'  (Introduction)

'As a teen in late-80s Brisbane, Andrew Stafford discovered punk and it changed his life.' 

'A memoir of music, madness and love from the author of the cult classic Pig City.

'For Andrew Stafford, music was a way up and a way out. There was just one little problem- he couldn't play. Because those who can do and those who can't review, he carved out a niche writing about it instead. 

'This is the story of a self-confessed wannabe's life- of growing up in public, of family, of falling in and out of love, and music, sweet music, everywhere.

'Written with enormous heart and a thumping rhythm, Something To Believe In is an uncompromising, inspiring book for anyone whose life has been saved by rock & roll.'  (Publication summary)
 

' In late 2014, Greg Roberts, a semi-retired journalist, was birdwatching along River Road in his local patch of Yandina on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. It was an area he thought he was familiar with. He'd known the freshwater wetlands near the eastern edge of the road to be a haven for a number of threatened species for two years, and had been lobbying the local council for its protection.' (Publication abstract)

'McGahan, who has died aged 52, arrived on the literary scene with a semi-autobiographical classic of Australian dirty realism.'

'While the show mostly sidesteps the truly nasty side of the former Queensland premier’s regime, its references to the present day are uncanny.'