A criminal psychologist's fall from grace
Tim Watson-Munro's addiction derailed his life for a time, and nearly ended his illustrious career
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Making mischief: the invention of Old Tom, Mr Chicken and Leigh Hobbs
Australia's Children's Laureate creates scruffy, anarchic characters beloved by children and adults
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Great Barrier Reef tales: seafarers, scientists and castaways
Iain MacCalman shares extraordinary stories from the history of human contact with the reef (R)
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Michael Robotham's fiction of fear: how true crime informs a bestseller's work
Ghost-writing and true crime: how a journo cracked the thriller market
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The part-Jewish physicist who almost became a Nazi soldier
Historian Sheila Fitzpatrick has used a cache of papers left by her late husband to piece...
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Fighting the wars of others: mercenaries and private armies
Sarah Percy explains the history and motivations of unconventional combatants
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The world's most puzzling riddles
Cryptic crossword compiler, David Astle, untangles the history of riddles (R)
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Etgar Keret's seven good years
A writer recalls the precious stretch of time between the birth of his son, and the death of his...
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From Winston Churchill's waiter to anaesthetist in Australia
Tony Atkinson's appetite for mischief and knack for being in the right place at the right time...
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Rugby League's greatest ever grand final upset
The 1969 final between the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Balmain Tigers is the stuff of footy...
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Mel Jacob: when my husband went to prison
Mel Jacob's enviable life was turned upside down when her husband went to jail (R)
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Where inmates make the rules: Bolivia's cocaine-fuelled San Pedro prison
When Rusty Young met drug smuggler Thomas McFadden he became part of San Pedro's unique society
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How an expedition to a Eastern Antarctica turned into a fight for survival
Scientist Chris Turney mounted a major expedition to Antartica in 2013. But then extreme weather...
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How the daughter of a Hindu brain surgeon made her mark on Guantanamo Bay
Shankari Chandran grew up watching her father operate on the brain. But rather than following...
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Life as a 'despised daughter' changed Mei Fong for good
Growing up as the fifth girl in a Chinese-Malaysian family meant Mei Fong was given a freedom not...
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John Maclean's 25-year journey to walk again
As a young man John Maclean was left an "incomplete paraplegic". He spent 25 years achieving...
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Making a good life in the aftermath of violence: Miroslav Volf
Growing up as a Pentecostal Christian in communist Yugoslavia, Miroslav experienced deep...
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Richard Roxburgh: a resume of rogues (and the terrible case of itchy bum)
One of Australia's most recognisable actors, aka Rake's Cleaver Greene, reflects on his life on...
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The scorpion, the earth's most ancient, deadly creature
Historian Louise Pryke reveals the mysteries of the scorpion, an exceptional creature.
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Listening to trees: nature's magnificent networkers
How biologist David George Haskell discovered the unique songs of trees, and the way they...
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