"Sydney may look golden, but this is the sunniness of Mozart, whose bright notes, especially at their most joyous, seem to cast themselves out across a great abyss."
Sydney has always been the sexiest and most gaudy of our cities. In this book, the third in a series in which leading Australian authors write about their hometowns, novelist Delia Falconer conjures up its sandstone, humidity, and jacarandas. But she goes beyond these to find a far more complex city: beautiful, violent, half-wild, and at times deeply spiritual. It is a slightly unreal place, haunted by a past that it has never quite grasped, or come to terms with.
Here, in her first non-fiction book, she proves herself an adept memoirist. She twines the stories of the people that have made Sydney the twenty-first century city it is today. Mad clergymen, amateur astronomers, Indigenous weather experts, crims and victims, photographers and artists: their stories are surprising, funny, and moving.
National Biography Award Shortlist 2012
Good Living Street: The Fortunes Of My Viennese Family
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
From high society in Vienna to a small flat in Sydney; from patrons of the arts to refugees from the Holocaust; this is the enthralling story of three generations of women spanning a century of upheaval.
In 1900 Vienna w... Buy or find out more →
Michael Kirby: Paradoxes, Principles
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Federation Press
Michael Kirby Paradoxes and Principles is the first biography of The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG; written by one of Australia’s leading public law and political science scholars, AJ Brown.
When he retired from the ... Buy or find out more →
Sydney
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Nsw University Pr
"Sydney may look golden, but this is the sunniness of Mozart, whose bright notes, especially at their most joyous, seem to cast themselves out across a great abyss."
Sydney has always been the sexiest and most gaudy of o... Buy or find out more →
The Many Worlds Of R.H. Mathews: In Search Of An Australian Anthropologist
$59.95$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
The Many Worlds of R.H. Mathews is about the life and work of the renowned 19th century surveyor turned ethnologist, R.H. Mathews, whose studies of Aboriginal Australia were path-breaking and quite controversial. His chi... Buy or find out more →
An Eye For Eternity: The Life Of Manning Clark
$54.99 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
Manning Clark (1915–1991) was a complex, demanding and brilliant man. Mark McKenna’s compelling biography of this giant of Australia’s cultural landscape is informed by his reading of Clark’s extensive private letters, j... Buy or find out more →
How To Make Gravy
$35.00 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller. For thirty years he has written songs of uncommon directness about everything from love and land rights to cricket and cooking. 'Before Too Long', 'To Her Door', 'Leaps And Bo... Buy or find out more →
New South Cities Series
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 →
Sydney
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Nsw University Pr
"Sydney may look golden, but this is the sunniness of Mozart, whose bright notes, especially at their most joyous, seem to cast themselves out across a great abyss."
Sydney has always been the sexiest and most gaudy of o... Buy or find out more →
Adelaide
$29.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
A painting, a frog cake, a landmark, a statue, a haunting newspaper photograph, a bucket of peaches, pink shorts in parliament, concert tickets, tourist maps … Kerryn Goldsworthy’s Adelaide is a museum of sorts, a person... Buy or find out more →
In Search Of Hobart
$29.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
Peter Timms leads us on a journey through his adopted city of Hobart, Australias smallest, most southerly, least prosperous, but arguably most beautiful state capital. He reveals a city in transition, shaking off its dar... Buy or find out more →
Brisbane
$29.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
I keep coming back to the light of Brisbane. If you are born into it, this palette of gentle pinks and oranges at dawn and dusk, the blast white of midday in summer, the lemon luminescence of mid-morning and mid-afternoo... Buy or find out more →
Sydney
Hide And Seek Sydney
$14.95 – Paperback book / Explore Australia
Hide & Seek Melbourne appeared on the Sydney Morning Herald's list of Top 10 travel publications for several weeks. And now Explore Australia has followed up with a second guidebook in this series. Hide & Seek Sy... Buy or find out more →
The Foodies' Guide To Sydney 2012
$24.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
Everyone knows Sydneysiders are spoiled for choice when it comes to buying the best ingredients for sumptuous homemade feasts. With wonderful new food businesses popping up every day, who can keep track of where to find ... Buy or find out more →
The Foodies' Guide To Sydney 2011
$29.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
Discover the city's best kept food secrets with The Foodies' Guide to Sydney. Food lovers know that when you want to enjoy a delicious meal at home, you need the best ingredients and the freshest produce. This is the one... Buy or find out more →
Sydney
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Nsw University Pr
"Sydney may look golden, but this is the sunniness of Mozart, whose bright notes, especially at their most joyous, seem to cast themselves out across a great abyss."
Sydney has always been the sexiest and most gaudy of o... Buy or find out more →
Frommer's Sydney Day By Day
$19.95$15.95 – Paperback book / Frommers
Sydney Day by Day is the perfect answer for travellers who want to know the best places to visit and the best way to see the city. This attractively priced, four-colour guide offers dozens of itineraries that show you ho... Buy or find out more →
Sydney City Guide
$33.99 – Paperback book / Lonely Planet
What Will Your Sydney Encounter Be?
Revelling in the surfing, sushi, bodies and beer of oceanside
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Joining the dots between Sydney's great independent galleries
Finding that perfect outfit for the Mardi Gras; or ju... Buy or find out more →