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Adelaide by Kerryn Goldsworthy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: City series
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 personal guide to the city through a collection of iconic objects. Adelaide navigates her ...Show more
Alice Springs by Eleanor Hogan
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: City series
Alice Springs, Alice, The Alice, Mparntwe is the most talked about but least familiar place in Australia. It is a town of extremes and contradictions: searingly hot and bitterly cold, thousands of miles from anywhere, the heart of black Australia and the headquarters of the controversial NT Intervention ...Show more
Berlin City Lit by Heather Reyes
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: City-Lit Series
Introduction by Rory MacLean
Brisbane by Matthew Condon
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: City series
In this book, the third in a series on Australian cities in which leading Australian authors write about their home city, novelist and journalist Matthew Condon rediscovers the city of his childhood, Brisbane. Having returned there after many years, Condon takes the reader on a unique and personal journ ...Show more
Ghost Town by Patrick McGrath
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Writer and the City Series | Reading Level: very good
Features three tales from the hand of master storyteller Patrick McGrath. This work excavates the layers of New York's turbulent history.
Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg; William Carlos Williams (Introduction by)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series Book 4 | Reading Level: very good
Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trail at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene. ...Show more
Melbourne by Sophie Cunningham
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: City series | Reading Level: very good
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 degrees to the destructive deluge of a hailstorm. She walks through Melbourne's oldest suburb to its largest market, she goes to the footy and to th ...Show more
Perth by David Whish-Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: City series
David Whish-Wilson's Perth is a place of surprising beauty, of sand-swept peace and brilliant light, yet a place where the deeper historical currents are never too far beneath the surface. Like the Swan River that flows in two directions at once at certain times, with the fresh water flowing seawards ab ...Show more
Sydney by Delia Falconer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: City series
"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 w ...Show more
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac
$17.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series
These classic Kerouac meditations, Zen koans and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe.
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