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Gary Presland
Presland reconstructs Melbourne at the time of European settlement. He looks at the history of Melbourne from the point of view of nature and considers the ways that urban development…
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Kornelia Freeman
Melbourne’s unique laneways are a wonderful place of excitement and discovery and a mecca for people who love to explore, socialise, shop and eat & drink.
Laneways of Melbourne is…
Chris Macheras
An enchanting collection of annotated historical images and contemporary photographs, revealing the change and development that Melbourne has experienced over the years.
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Chris Cincotta
Humans in Melbourne is a beautifully produced hardback coffee table book featuring full colour photographs of and stories from the popular Humans of Melbourne Facebook page. Available now, this love…
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Anson Cameron
Harry Broome dreams of being a famous painter. And when a sophisticated French beauty buys all the paintings at his first exhibition, he knows he’s on his way. But in…
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Emma Viskic
Profoundly deaf since early childhood, Caleb has always lived on the outside - watching and picking up tell-tale signs people hide in a smile, a cough or a kiss
A sequel to Old Vintage Melbourne, this collection invites you again to turn back time and revisit the diverse past of the much-loved city of Melbourne.
Arnold Zable
A moving tribute to the spirit of survival, Arnold Zable’s beloved novel Cafe Scheherazade is now a Text Classic.
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Evi O, Andrew Grune
With a trip for every week of the year, Day Trip Melbourne takes you to mountains, waterfalls, swimming holes, beaches, forests, coastlines, snow trails, urban parks, Aboriginal sites, rivers, canyons…
George Johnston
Through the story of the two brothers, George Johnston created an enduring exploration of two Australian myths: that of the man who loses his soul as he gains worldly success…
Sean O'Beirne
This brilliant collection mixes the storytelling originality of George Saunders and Lydia Davis with a sensibility all its own, taking the reader on an extraordinary tour of old and new…
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Rather than leaving your four-legged friend at home when seeking a nature adventure, Dog Trip Melbourne offers 52 getaways that both dogs and their people can enjoy, all within a…
Ronnie Scott
A story about sexuality, the ache of friendship and love, and sticky summers at the pool, this exhilarating debut novel captures the heartbeat of one transformative summer where alliances are…
Regularly voted as the world’s most liveable city in related studies and surveys, there is something for everyone in Melbourne where a vibrant arts, design, and culinary scene thrives. Jacketed…
Henry Handel Richardson
The classic Australian novel of school days, a compelling and frank account of a young girl’s coming of age.
Bob Byrne
Take a nostalgic trip down memory lane with Bob Byrne as he transports us back in time to a Melbourne that has long since disappeared, the streets and buildings, the…
Boyd Oxlade
A cult hit later made into a film starring Sam Neill, Death in Brunswick is a classic Australian comedy.
Gus Berger
The story of Melbourne before Whelan the Wrecker was here. A companion piece to the highly acclaimed independent documentary of the same name, this beautiful volume tells the story of…
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Maree Coote
At last! A TRUER History of Melbourne… With Added Women for extra strength!
Meet the daughters of Melbourne. The rich gals; the poor gals; the gorgeous gay gals-And the gals…
Robyn Annear
Melbourne's favourite historian, as seen in the acclaimed documentary, The Lost City of Melbourne, takes us on an unorthodox tour of the city's streets and corners, telling stories about the…
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Take a walk through Melbourne’s streets and discover a world of fascinating historical tidbits with renowned writer and history buff Robyn Annear.
Alice Pung
Offers a vivid and ironic sense of two worlds. Combines the story of Pung’s life growing up in suburban Footscray, with the inherited stories of the women in her family.
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Comes out of Melbourne Museums permanent exhibition, ‘The Melbourne Story’.
Allee Richards
The night Eva shared a smile with Pat, something started. Two weeks later, lying together in her bed, Pat said, ‘You can’t live your life saying you’ll get around to…
Peter Whiteley
Fully revised and updated, the third edition of Where to Ride Melbourne is an essential resource for anyone who wants to enjoy riding in Melbourne. The 49 adult rides are…
Enza Gandolfo
Drawing on true events of Australia’s worst industrial accident - a tragedy that still scars the city - The Bridge is a profoundly moving novel that examines class, guilt, and…
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Kerry Greenwood
It’s the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant Phyrne Fisher is dancing and gaming with gay abandon. Bored by the endless round of parties and in search of…
Sophie Cunningham
In this bestselling book, Sophie Cunningham writes about what happened over the year that followed Black Saturday, the day that bushfires tore through the outskirts of Melbourne, shattering thousands of…
Andrew May
Ugo Catanis A Summer Shower in Collins Street, 1889, sets the scene for Andrew Mays invitation to walk the streets of Melbourne, imagine the everyday past, and see the urban…
Nick Gadd
Over two years, writer Nick Gadd and his wife Lynne circled the city of Melbourne on foot, starting at Williamstown and ending in Port Melbourne. Along the way they uncovered…
Kristin Otto
Kristin Otto has produced a moving and surprising exploration of the history and meaning of Melbourne’s Yarra river and those who have lived and worked on it. Yarra celebrates a…
In 1901, the Australian colonies came together to form a new nation which, for the next 26 years, was governed from Melbourne. And this overgrown town, in all but name…
John McLaren
Like cities everywhere, Melbourne is two cities. There is the city of space and place, of the streets and parks and buildings where we live. Then there is the city…
Toni Jordan
Multi-generational story about two families and the love affair that brings them together, told in the voices of nine people and the day that changes their life forever.
‘Just a little way down Collins Street, beside Henry Buck’s, is a perpetually dark but sheltered laneway called Equitable Place. Here you’ll find a number of places to eat and…
'On January 1st 2022, I decided that I would embark on my biggest project ever. I would take a photo each day of 2022 in Melbourne/Victoria. I only knew one…
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‘Old landmarks fall in nearly every block … and the face of the city is changing so rapidly that the time is not too far distant when a search for…
Peter Temple
Meet Jack Irish, criminal lawyer, debt collector, football lover, turf watcher, trainee cabinetmaker, and one of the best crime characters ever created.
Barbara Minchinton
A vivid account of a remarkable but little-known chapter in Melbourne’s history
Helen Garner
A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia’s most respected authors, now available in a smaller and competitively priced format.
Christos Tsiolkas
Ari is nineteen, Greek, gay, unemployed, looking for something - anything - to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne. Torn between the traditional Greek world of…
Marcia Langton, James Waghorne, Ross L Jones
Melbourne's oldest university confronts its long, complex and troubled relationship with the Indigenous people of Australia
Dhoombak Goobgoowana acknowledges and publicly addresses the long, complex and troubled relationship between the…
Oslo Davis
A brilliantly entertaining, full-colour collection of words and pictures by Melbourne’s favourite cartoonist, Oslo Davis
Tim Flannery
In the tradition of Birth of Sydney, award winning author Tim Flannery has brought together a fascinating, quirky collection of contemporary stories describing the making of the great Southern city…
Marilyn Bull
The Flora of Melbourne is a resource that assists in the recognition and botanical identification of species while encouraging an awareness of the interrelationships between indigenous plants and animals.
Sarah Krasnostein
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife…
Introducing baker and amateur sleuth Corinna Chapman. Mysteries filled with gastronomical delights, humour and unexpected twists from the bestselling author of the Phyrne Fisher mysteries.
Andrea Goldsmith
Knowing what you want is hard. Accepting what is possible is harder still.