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Mark Dapin reveals that life as a columnist isn’t always a bed of roses.
Don Miller remembers 1950s Melbourne, bristling with life, art and new discoveries.
Mike Ladd tries to fill in the gaps with his long-absent son
Reading Doris Lessing by Melanie Joosten.
Old Copmanhurst, a memoir from Gillian Mears
David Scheel on the joys and sorrows of growing up in a passionate Jewish family
Artist Rod Moss journey’s to the Hart’s Ranges in the name of healing.
Whose Purpose I Don’t Know by Antonia Pont
Patrick McCaughey on life by the Quinnipiac River.
As a young journalist in 1989 Sonya Voumard moved to Queensland, and discovered a strange and unfamiliar land
Rachel Buchanan learns to read the many moods of the road.
Dave Graney travels to the Coco Islands and considers never coming back.
Growing up in Uriarra, Memoir from Jemimah Widdicombe
Lindsay Tanner remembers the music that made him.
Elmo Keep remembers repeatedly not reading American Psycho
Lorelei Vasthi returns to Istanbul, home of bridge metaphors and ambiguous compliments.
John McKenzie’s honest account of living with, and through, cancer.
Bryony Cosgrove lives through a diagnosis and says no to all things pink.
Angelina Mirabito recalls moving from Chelsea to Parkville and a into another. life