Melt Down

How an ice addict's life spiralled into hell - REPORT BY NEIL JAMESON

Very Well Then, I Contradict Myself

Fast, Loose Beginnings: A Memoir of Intoxications By John Kinsella Melbourne University Publishing, 244pp, $27.95 Rebel poet, recovering addict and literary paradox John Kinsella has ruffled a few feathers with his inflammatory memoir.

Destroyed By A Sinister Lust

Howard Ambrose was a pillar of his rural community, a leading figure in his Masonic Lodge. Jarrad Matthews was a teenage prostitute and drug addict. Their lives were about to collide in a way that no one could have imagined. William Birnbauer reports.