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Eddie Perfect: ‘I think my true natural state is utter laziness’

As he enters his ‘wise old man’ era, the former ‘wunderkind’ composer-playwright-performer delves deep into optimism, kindness and his lifelong aversion to disappointing people

The Guardian - AU

Elizabeth Harrower and Shirley Hazzard only met six times. They wrote to each other for 40 years

The two literary greats wrote 400,000 words to each other in letters that now reveal rare insights into their friendship - sometimes affectionate, intimate, cool and resentful

The Guardian - AU

Patrick White was the first Australian writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature – 50 years later, is he still being read?

Did you know that 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of Patrick White winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Australian writer to be so honoured?

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Friday essay: homosexuality was still illegal when Frank Moorhouse started writing – but it was there from his earliest fiction

Frank Moorhouse had been having sex with men since the age of 17 but did not openly identify as gay or bisexual.

The Conversation

Family’s fears for former Celebrity First Dates star last seen in London 20 days ago

Patrick White went on a date with professional rugby player Keegan Hirst on the Channel 4 show

Evening Standard

Big-picture thinking: in The Bell of the World, Gregory Day listens to the music of common things

Gregory Day’s The Bell of the World is an ambitious, strange and marvellous novel.

The Conversation

The best new books released in November as selected by avid readers and critics

A mystery novel inspired by The Teacher's Pet, a WWI story featuring Miles Franklin, and the overdue biography of a celebrated Australian writer are in our top reads this month.

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Man suspected of having crossbow on bus in Wythenshawe arrested by armed police as passengers evacuated

Witnesses said officers with 'huge guns' pointed them at the bus in the dramatic scenes

Manchester Evening News

Hollow, cloying veneration greeted the Queen’s death. Now history calls on us to get an Australian head of state

Though Elizabeth II outlasted and undid our republican impulses, it’s astonishing to see the nonstop public piety in operation

The Guardian - AU

Luke Carman, the circle of life, and the world as an ecstatic masterpiece

It’s one of those circle of life kind of things, the antagonist Hopper says in Pixar’s A Bug’s Life, explaining how his gang of marauding grasshoppers exploit the ants with a dry cynicism that Luke Carman might appreciate. It wasn’t until I reached the final story in Carman’s collection An…

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Dublin grandad's plea for help to get beloved wife life-saving treatment

Despite undergoing surgery and radiotherapy, Margaret's tumour continued to grow

Dublin Live

VerifyMe Scoops Assets Of Logistics Management Company PeriShip To Gain New Entry Point In Pharma Market

VerifyMe Inc (NASDAQ:VRME) acquired the assets of PeriShip, LLC in a transaction worth $10.5 million. The consideration consisted of $7.5 million cash, $1.0 million in VerifyMe shares, and a $2.0 million promissory note. PeriShip is a value-added service provider of shipping and logistics management for the perishable healthcare and food industries. PeriShip was…

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