Melbourne Books
Melbourne
$29.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
Read our Q&A with Sophie Cunningham about Melbourne.
Sophie Cunningham writes a year in the city’s life, a year that takes us from the heatwave that culminated on Black Saturday when temperatures soared to 47 degree... Buy or find out more →
Characters: Cultural Stories Revealed Through Typography
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
Characters presents a selection of stories about the signs seen around a city – in this case Melbourne – that have helped to shape its character and its intriguing history.
The places, experiences and stories are uni... Buy or find out more →
Flavours Of Melbourne
$69.99 – Hardcover book / Smudge
Flavours of Melbourne explores Melbourne’s nooks and crannies, upstairs and downstairs and through the complex laneway system. Beautiful photography, history, recipe, street art, restaurants and bars – all come together ... Buy or find out more →
Melbourne's Western Gorges
$19.95 – Paperback book / Open Spaces Pubs
By Glenn Tempest. Situated just 45min west of the Melbourne CBD, these three remarkable state and national parks offer some of the best gorge walking in Victoria. With its unique user-friendly layout and incorporated GPS... Buy or find out more →
The Casual Cyclist's Guide To Melbourne
$19.95 – Paperback book / Explore Australia
“The city and the bike – they were made for each other” begins The Casual Cyclist’s Guide, bringing a fresh and entertaining perspective to this much-loved mode of transport.
Beginning with the quest for personal... Buy or find out more →
The Age Good Food Guide 2012
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The Age Good Food Guide 2012 offers more than 500 new reviews of the best places to eat and drink in Melbourne and country Victoria. With the most experienced team of reviewers, this book will give you the lowdown on the... Buy or find out more →
Melbournes Bars And Clubs 2012
$19.90 – Paperback book /
• Melbourne’s Bars and Pubs 2012 follows the hugely success 2011 edition. • A funky, descriptive and photographic guide to the best wine and cocktail bars, history filled old pubs, jazz bars, quirky laneway hideouts and ... Buy or find out more →
1835: The Founding Of Melbourne And The Conquest Of Australia
$44.95 – Hardcover book / Black Inc
In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney, Tasmanian speculators began sending men and sheep across Bass Strait – and so changed the... Buy or find out more →
The Changing Body Health Nutrition And Human Development In The Western World Since 1700
$34.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres
Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have lin... Buy or find out more →
UBD Melbourne Compact Street Directory Ninth Edition
$19.95 – Paperback book / Ubd
The UBD® MELBOURNE COMPACT Street Directory has been specifically designed for people on the go. This ninth edition of the Compact is much more than a conventional street directory and is perfect for the public transport... Buy or find out more →
Melbourne Remade: The Inner City Since The 70s
$20.00 – Paperback book / Arcade
Taking up where Making Modern Melbourne left off, Melbourne Remade charts the social and cultural consequences of globalisation, the rise and rise of postmodern monoliths, and the recent resurgence of the CBD as a place ... Buy or find out more →
Mark Strizic: Melbourne, Marvellous To Modern
$75.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
This magnificent collection of photographs arose from the creativity of a young photographer and his adoption of his new home town, Melbourne. His pictures were taken at a time when the Victorian elegance of the city onc... Buy or find out more →
The Melbourne Dreaming: A Guide To The Aboriginal Places Of Melbourne
$19.95 – Paperback book / Aboriginal
This guide offers a different way of exploring the best of Melbourne. It describes Aboriginal places, both historic and modern, whose locations have been mapped onto cycling and walking maps Buy or find out more →
Radical Melbourne: A Secret History
$39.95 – Paperback book / Vulgar Press
A site for racial war or a feminist paradise? Melbourne's past contains many struggles over the nature of its future. While the sleazy entrepreneurs who led white settlement imagined Port Phillip merely as a source of ri... Buy or find out more →
The Coffee Guide Melbourne 2011 (3rd Edition)
$19.95 – Paperback book / Independent Pub. Grp
The third edition of The Coffee Guide. Melbourne has seen this city re-emergence as the nation's cafe capital, with an explosion of great cafe in the past 12 months. Find out which venues are a 'must visit' for any caffe... Buy or find out more →
The Age Cheap Eats 2011
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Celebrate 25 years of eating well on a budget with the Cheap Eats 2011! This blockbuster edition contains more than 500 reviews (including more than 100 new eateries) of the best places to eat and drink in Melbourne and ... Buy or find out more →
Melbourne Aa Citypack Guide 4
$22.95 – Paperback book /
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Melbourne A Steve Parish Souvenir
$12.95 – Paperback book / Steve Parish Pub
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Melbourne And Victoria Travel Guide
$34.99 – Paperback book / Lonely Planet
8th edition/July 2011
Keeping up with Melbourne’s calendar of cultural and sporting events can be simply exhausting. Thankfully, Melbourne is surrounded by vibrant regions that inspire winding down or, if you can’t get e... Buy or find out more →
Melbourne And Beyond Australia In Focus
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Steve Parish Pub
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Melbourne Australia Panoramic Gift Book
$12.95 – Hardcover book / Steve Parish Pub
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Melbourne City Pocket Map
$5.95 – Maps / Explore Australia
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Melbourne City Map And Mini Guide
$16.95 – Pack / Automobile Assoc.
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Melbourne And Victorias Splendour
$35.00 – Hardcover book / New Holland Pub
With over 120 full-colour photographs, this book celebrates the beauty and diversity of this fascinating state and its sophisticated capital Buy or find out more →
Melbourne Stories: Three Plays
$32.95 – Paperback book / Currency
Three Plays: Who's Afraid of the Working Class; Polly Blue; Features of Blown Youth
Melbourne at the end of the twentieth century...modern economic miracle or a society imploding with savage politics and despair? The cha... Buy or find out more →
Hide And Seek Melbourne: Hit Streets
$14.95 – Paperback book / Explore Australia
Following the success of the original Hide & Seek Melbourne, Explore Australia has now expanded the Melbourne series with four separate books on hidden experiences, shopping, food and nightlife. Each funky and compac... Buy or find out more →
Hide And Seek Melbourne: Treasure Trove
$14.95 – Paperback book / Explore Australia
Following the success of the original Hide & Seek Melbourne, Explore Australia has now expanded the Melbourne series with four separate books on hidden experiences, shopping, food and nightlife. Each funky and compac... Buy or find out more →
Hide And Seek Melbourne: Feeling Peckish
$14.95 – Paperback book / Explore Australia
Following the success of the original Hide & Seek Melbourne, Explore Australia has now expanded the Melbourne series with four separate books on hidden experiences, shopping, food and nightlife. Each funky and compac... Buy or find out more →
Hide And Seek Melbourne: Night Owl
$14.95 – Paperback book / Explore Australia
Following the success of the original Hide & Seek Melbourne, Explore Australia has now expanded the Melbourne series with four separate books on hidden experiences, shopping, food and nightlife. Each funky and compac... Buy or find out more →
Melbourne: A City Of Stories (2nd Edition)
$29.95 – Paperback book / Museum Victoria
Melbourne: a city of stories grew out of Melbourne Museums permanent exhibition, 'The Melbourne Story'. That makes it a selective history: one based on objects - things that have survived. The idea that objects can give ... Buy or find out more →
First People: The Eastern Kulin Of Melbourne, Port Phillip And Central Victoria
$24.95 – Paperback book / Museum Victoria
This is the only up-to-date book available about the Eastern Kulin peoples. The Kulin nation lived around Port Phillip Bay and the Yarra River valley and their territory stretched as far north as the Murray River at Echu... Buy or find out more →
Melbourne Book: History Of Now (Revised Edition)
$55.00 – Hardcover book / Melbourne Style Books
Visual, passionate and informative, THE MELBOURNE BOOK is crammed with anecdotes and detail. With over 700 photos and 60 tales from past and present, author/photographer Maree Coote explores the city with an eye for the ... Buy or find out more →
Guide To Melbourne Architecture
$49.95 – Paperback book / Watermark Press
Melbourne’s settlement in 1835 was a shrewd, if not entirely
legal,
piece of real estate speculation, not at all like Sydney and
Hobart
which began as penal colonies. Surveyor Robert Hoddle’s grid plan
grew over the ne... Buy or find out more →
When We Think About Melbourne: The Imagination Of A City
$34.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
What exactly makes Melbourne unique? And why do we always struggle to describe the city’s differences? Journalist Jenny Sinclair went in search of the answers and discovered that it’s actually all in our head – or, more ... Buy or find out more →
Beyond the Facade: Flinders Street
$74.95 – Paperback book /
Beyond the Facade: Flinders Street was written by Jenny Davies and explores the 100 year history of Flinders Street Station.
The history includes the social, commercial and architectural history of the station with a par... Buy or find out more →
Melbourne Symmetry
$34.95 – Hardcover book /
Melbourne Symmetry is the most recent and contemporary perspective of our stylish and unique city of Melbourne!
This is not your average pictorial souvenir book. Melbourne Symmetry identifies with the city's style, engag... Buy or find out more →
Place For A Village How Nature Has Shaped The City Of Melbourne
$39.95 – Paperback book / Museum Victoria
Have you ever wondered why Melbourne is located where it is? Or why it has the shape it does? The original point of settlement was about seven kilometres up the Yarra River from Port Phillip Bay. Urban development in the... Buy or find out more →
Walking Melbourne The National Trust Guide To The Historic And Architectural
$20.95 – Paperback book /
This book celebrates the contribution made by Melbourne's many talented architects, as well as documenting important histroical landmarks and some of the curiosities that dot the city's streets. The central area conatins... Buy or find out more →
Kings Way: The Beginnings of Australian Graffiti: Melbourne 1983–93
$64.99$0.00 – Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press
A quarter of a century ago, the New York City hip-hop phenomenon left its mark on Australian walls-a graffiti-writing culture was born.
In a barrage of blinding colour, cryptic words and bombed out train carriages, Kings... Buy or find out more →
Hide & Seek Melbourne
$14.95 – Paperback book / Explore Australia
Hide & Seek Melbourne is a funky and compact guide to Melbourne's hidden treasures. From restaurants and shops to live music venues, the book features 40 secret and intriguing places that you won’t find in any regula... Buy or find out more →
Marvellous Melbourne And Me
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Melbourne Books
A rare glimpse into Melbourne of the 20th Century.
Bruce McBrien has enjoyed a virtual love affair with Melbourne and its environs almost since the day he was born.
His family’s social standing gave Bruce a rare perspect... Buy or find out more →
Melbourne Past And Present
$29.95 – Paperback book / Axiom
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Shadowed Days Fragments Of A Melbourne Boyhood
$29.95 – Paperback book / Clouds Of Magellan
GARRY KINNANE'S haunting evocation of his boyhood in Melbourne in the 40s and 50s brings to life the struggles of a small family. Frank and Thelma and their two boys, Garry and Ray, are always on the move - from Richmond... Buy or find out more →
Place For A Village How Nature Has Shaped The City Of Melbourne
$0.00 – Hardcover book / Museum Victoria
Have you ever wondered why Melbourne is located where it is? Or why it has the shape it does? The original point of settlement was about seven kilometres up the Yarra River from Port Phillip Bay. Urban development in the... Buy or find out more →
Where To Ride Melbourne
$34.95 – Spiral bound /
Where to Ride Melbourne features 40 great recreational rides from Altona to Frankston. It’s packed full of brilliant photography.
David is a freelance architectural photographer—-so iit includes interesting information... Buy or find out more →
Handmade In Melbourne
$29.95 – Paperback book / Geoff Slattery Publishing
The first edition of Handmade in Melbourne was published in 2006 to great success and acclaim from the artisan world and the general community. For this, the second edition of Handmade, we decided to not only increase th... Buy or find out more →
Making Modern Melbourne
$17.95 – Paperback book / Arcade
From illegal village to modern metropolis, Melbourne is a city of many layers. Jenny Lee observes them with a sharp eye, sampling the city's marvellous and not-so-marvellous moments and reintroducing some of the unconven... Buy or find out more →
Weekend Walks Around Melbourne
$32.95 – Paperback book /
An introduction to the best multi-day walks around Melbourne. Featuring magnificent coastlines, remote summits, and towering forests. Buy or find out more →
Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne
$27.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In this much-loved book, Robyn Annear resurrects the village that was early Melbourne – from the arrival of white settlers in 1835 until the first gold rushes shook the town – and brings it to life in vivid colour. This ... Buy or find out more →
Vintage Melbourne
$34.95 – Hardcover book / East Street Publicat
Following the success of VINTAGE ADELAIDE, artist/photographer Peter Fischer and local historian Susan Marsden bring you another stunning collection of photographs of Melbourne's most lovely buildings and the history beh... Buy or find out more →
Perils Of The Studio: Inside The Artistic Affairs Of Bohemian Melbourne
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Aust Scholarly Pub
Bohemians or businessmen? Moral behaviour or misbehaving with the models? In the early 20th century, there was much speculation about what was going on behind the curtains of bohemia. With its heady mixture of cheerful p... Buy or find out more →
Flavours Of Melbourne: A Culinary Biography
$39.95 – Paperback book / Wakefield Press
In this colourful and cleverly written culinary history of the city of Melbourne, author Charmaine O’Brien guides the reader through the changing eating habits of Melburnians. Beginning with the little-known and diverse ... Buy or find out more →
Daywalks Around Melbourne (2nd Edition)
$34.95 – Paperback book / Unknown
This very popular guide covers 100 of Melbourne's best local daywalks. From the Otways to the gold country, across the ironbark forests, the Great Dividing Range and down to the Mornington Peninsula. Clear and consise de... Buy or find out more →
Melbourne Encounter Guide
$19.95 – Paperback book / Lonely Planet
1st Edition / September 2008
Melbourne doesn't shout it from the rooftops - but it does like a drink up there. Discover the city that holds more secrets than the CIA - bars in shipping containers, designers in undergroun... Buy or find out more →
Melbourne City Guide
$12.95 – Paperback book /
Wallpaper City Guides not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he or she has a week or just 24 hours in the city. The guides feature up-and-c... Buy or find out more →
Flora Of Melbourne A Guide To The Indigenous Plants Of The Greater Melbourne Area
$55.00 – Paperback book / Hyland House
In this 3rd edition, 114 new entries, 98 new species and many name changes have been included to ensure that Flora of Melbourne remains the essential single volume reference for the many people interested in the conserva... Buy or find out more →
Handmade In Melbourne Inspiration And Integrity From Eighty Extraordinary Peopl
$39.95 – Paperback book / Geoff Slattery
Handmade in Melbourne is a celebration of Melbourne craftspeople and artisans and the things they make with their hands. The book reflects the global trend away from the manufactured and mass-produced and towards a renew... Buy or find out more →
The Birth Of Melbourne
$26.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
In 1835 John Batman sailed up the Yarra and was astonished by the beauty of the land. It was a temperate Kakadu, teeming with wildlife and with soils rich enough to spawn pastoral empires. With the discovery of gold, the... Buy or find out more →
Short History Of Melbourne Architecture
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Pesaro Publishing
Introduction by Philip Goad Project text by Katrina Place Photographs by Patrick Bingham-Hall
Melbourne’s architects have always reveled in the artifice of architecture and formal experiment. The city currently possesses... Buy or find out more →
City Lost And Found Whelan The Wreckers Melbourne
$29.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
The demolition firm of Whelan the Wrecker was a Melbourne institution for a hundred years (1892-1992). Its famous sign – 'Whelan the Wrecker Was Here' on a pile of smoking rubble – was a laconic masterpiece and served as... Buy or find out more →
Yarra: The History Of Melbourne's Murky River
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
It was John Wedge, Batman's private surveyor, who named the Yarra Yarra. In September 1835 he was at the Turning Basin with some Kulin and heard them identify the river as it came over the Falls as, he wrote, 'Yarrow Yar... Buy or find out more →
Radical Melbourne 2: 1940-2000
$39.95 – Paperback book / Vulgar Press
On the streets, under the ground and on the information superhighway, radicals and rebels have made this town their own. The acclaimed Radical Melbourne revealed the hidden history of the city's first hundred years in wh... Buy or find out more →
Encyclopedia Of Melbourne
$150.00 – Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres
Great cities deserve great encyclopedias. A city is known by its past, its characteristic virtues and troubles, and its ways of life. 'Marvellous Melbourne' symbolises the achievements of Australian urbanisation and subu... Buy or find out more →
The Slow Guide to Melbourne
$29.95 – Paperback book / Affirm
The Slow Guide to Melbourne is a lifestyle guide for Melburnians who want to slow down and live it up. Refashioned, refreshed and fully recharged, The Slow Guide is the perfect tonic in these accelerated times. An altern... Buy or find out more →