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Commonwealth’s barrister tells federal court they will return diary to former political staffer but it must be declassified first Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The contents of a diary written by Bruce Lehrmann that was seized from his home have to be declassified by the federal government to be returned to him, a court has been told. The ex-political staffer is suing the federal special minister of state, Don Farrell, and the national anti-corruption commissioner, Paul Brereton, seeking legal funding to fight allegations of corruption. Continue reading...

The Guardian Culture

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Maggie O’Farrell: ‘Fiction comes from what you don’t know’

From a young age, the author was told that one of her ancestors had drawn some of the first maps of Ireland. Then she found a photograph, and embarked on a journey to discover his story Every family has its myths. In mine, we were told that one of our antecedents had worked on the first maps of Ireland. As a child, I used to picture a solitary person in unspecified period dress – a tailcoat, perhaps some kind of cravat – striding pensively about fields and mountains, pen in hand. On summer holidays, I would stare out of the window of our red car as Donegal or Galway rolled by and wonder that such a task could be achieved. How did one man set about drawing a map of a whole country, of these towns and strands and trees and rivers? All myths comprise a great deal of fanciful embroidery through which runs the distinct thread of truth: time and retelling will always refract reality. This mapper preyed on my mind. I thought about him, always, when I travelled around Ireland. I thought about him in my final year of school, when my geography exam required me to analyse a square of an unknown map. I wanted, as I often do, to know more, about his life, his work, who he had been and how he had mapped. Continue reading...

Daily Mail (News)

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Best selling Hamnet author Maggie O'Farrell and the mystery of her chilling mountainside encounter with a sex attacker who tried to strangle her with binocular straps - and went on to murder a backpacker

Maggie O'Farrell has moved and thrilled millions of readers with her books, especially Hamnet, the movie adaptation of which claimed Best Actress Oscar for Jessie Buckley this year.

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