Crime writer Candice Fox began exchanging letters with a serial killer on death row. Then he asked to meet her in person

An opportunity to further her education while serving time proved the making of Kerry (R)

John Birmingham on rebuilding his life after devastating loss, years after he wrote his 90s cult novel

Paul Gilbert on how our brains are wired for inner conflict and possible cruelty, and what to do about it

Journalist Anton Enus grew up as the son of a professional wrestler, in apartheid-era South Africa

Historian Nick Brodie on how a 1928 adventure on the slopes of Australia's highest mountain went horribly wrong

Chemist and fire scene investigator Niamh Nic Daeid on doing science in the service of justice

Kate Legge traces the lives of pioneering naturalists Kate Cowle and Gustav Weindorfer in Tasmania's sublime wilderness

Sarah Smarsh on the idiosyncratic women who raised her in Kansas

Bob Doneley is one of the only Australian vets specialising in the health of budgerigars (R)