Shirley HazzardDrawing on diaries, letters, interviews alongside a close reading of Hazzard's fiction Brigitta Olubas, herself Australian tells the story of a girl from the suburbs 'with a head full of poetry' who fell early under the spell of words and sought out first books and then people who loved books as her companions. In the process she transformed and indeed created her life. She became a woman of the world who felt injustice keenly, a deep and original

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Which is how Miguel finds himself on a one-way mission with his own destructive mandate: to eliminate a passing ship

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From Simon the sea cat to Greyfriars Bobby's 14-year vigil over his master's grave

the one that might mean the end of everything

But behind them lies a story of enclosure

intersectionality

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