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    Owen Richardson

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    'Questions of Travel', Michelle de Kretser,
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    ’Questions of Travel’ by Michelle de Kretser

    What are you doing here? This is the question the heroine of Michelle de Kretser’s new novel asks herself. Laura Fraser comes into money and goes to see the world. She ends up in London, working first as a house-sitter and then as a travel …

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    ’The Engagement’ by Chloe Hooper

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    ‘2.37’ Directed by Murali K Thalluri

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