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The Transit of Shirley Hazzard

Australian novelist Shirley Hazzard at home in New York on publication of her final novel, <i>The Great Fire</i>.

Shirley Hazzard was one of the most cosmopolitan, elegant and quietly formidable writers of the 20th century, claimed by Australians and New Yorkers – and some Italians – as one of their own. Born in Sydney, a US citizen since the 1970s, she died at the age of 85 in her Manhattan apartment on Monday night.

Farewell to a deeply affecting writer

Georgia Blain, daughter of Anne Deveson, has died after a battle with brain cancer.

The novelist Georgia Blain died last week. Fellow novelist James Bradley pays a tribute to a true friend and a woman possessed of a black sense of humour.

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Best-selling biography: <i>Working Class Boy</i> by Jimmy Barnes.

Jimmy Barnes tops the biography best-sellers' list this week with Working Class Boy.