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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…
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Monocle
Designed to be compact and collectable, The Monocle Travel Guide Series go beyond the traditional tourist beats to make sure visitors get the best out of a city - no…
Megan McKean
Much anticipated follow-up to Hello, Sydney!. A delightful look and find adventure with fun facts that kids and parents will both enjoy featuring a ‘mischief’ of magpies.
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Chris Macheras
An enchanting collection of annotated historical images and contemporary photographs, revealing the change and development that Melbourne has experienced over the years.
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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Robyn Annear
Take a walk through Melbourne’s streets and discover a world of fascinating historical tidbits with renowned writer and history buff Robyn Annear.
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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.
On 25 June 1847, Melbourne was declared a city by letters patent of Queen Victoria. By 1865, Melbourne had become Australia’s most populous city, at a time when consumer confidence…
Melbourne and Victoria, the southern jewel, is the city and state that offers so much from amazing restaurants and wine to incredible beauty and stunning coastlines. This book showcases what…
Ross Campbell
It all began in Melbourne. The world's first feature film. Australia's first picture palace. Australia's first film festival.
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Melbourne International Film Festival
A collection of bold new writing capturing Melbourne’s identity in cinema
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Weston Bate, Richard Broome, Nicole Davis, Andrew J. May, Helen Stitt
A history of Melbourne's lanes over 180 years from their creation in the 1840s until 2024.
Craig Sheather
Best Walks East of Melbourne includes 40 walks, from Phillip Island to Ninety Mile Beach, the Yarra Ranges to Wilsons Promontory. Each walk specifies the distance, the grade and the…
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…
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…
Take a breathtaking journey through the heart of Melbourne with Moments of Melbourne, a stunning photography book by photographer Chris Cincotta
The 2025 Melbourne calendar includes 12 images of the city and surrounding suburbs.
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Hello, Melbourne! is a celebration of this great Australian city. With its colourful laneways and bustling shopping arcades, the bookish wonders of the State Library and the sights and smells…
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…
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Two-sided guide featuring a map of Melbourne’s finest concrete and Brutalist buildings. The reverse includes details for fifty buildings, an introduction by Glenn Harper, the editor of Blue Crow Media’s…
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…
Jane Sullivan
Inspired by real events and people, Murder in Punch Lane is a dark and gripping crime novel that maps the sins and secrets of nineteenth-century Melbourne
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…
Oslo Davis
A brilliantly entertaining, full-colour collection of words and pictures by Melbourne’s favourite cartoonist, Oslo Davis
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…
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…
Andrew Watson
This book celebrates some of the little-told and unusual stories in Melbourne's evolution from a few houses on the banks of the Yarra river to today's bustling metropolis
Sean Reynolds
A beguiling photographic collection of the faded signs and half-hidden logos of Melbourne, revealing the historic tales - big and small - of this ever-changing city.
Lonely Planet, Virginia Maxwell, Justin Meneguzzi
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan an unforgettable trip to Melbourne. Scout street art off Flinders Lane, relax at St Kilda Beach, cycle…
Lonely Planet
Durable and waterproof, with a handy slipcase and an easy-fold format, Lonely Planet's Melbourne City Map is your conveniently sized passport to travelling with ease
Broadsheet Media
In 2015 the tastemakers at Broadsheet captured the Melbourne dining zeitgeist with The Broadsheet Melbourne Cookbook. Now comes a brand-new snapshot of the city's thriving culinary scene, noticeably more…
Brian Carr (photog.)
Music City offers a rare window into Melbourne’s music scene as it evolved over the last six decades.
Bailer
Melbourne Map
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…
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…
Alix Melbourne
In this Regency-era romance, twins separated as babies and reunited as ladies secretly trade lives, only to fall for men they never imagined marrying.
Mariotta Abingdon is shocked at the…
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'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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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…
Museum Victoria,Robyn Annear
Comes out of Melbourne Museums permanent exhibition, ‘The Melbourne Story’.
The hottest dishes from Melbourne’s most popular iconic eateries, as curated by stylemakers Broadsheet.
Barbara Minchinton
A vivid account of a remarkable but little-known chapter in Melbourne’s history
Margaret Ann Spence
As the Cold War chilled, inside a Melbourne house a young girl was caught in the crossfire of domestic conflict amid the clashing political and social values of her autocratic…
On 8th October 1919, six men met for lunch at Scott's Hotel in Melbourne. Their purpose was to discuss the possibility of forming a Scottish Society in Melbourne, the function…
Rod Nicholson, Rob Nicholson
The Melbourne Racing Club has evolved from a swampland into the most progressive and richest racing establishment in the nation. The club has weathered wars, fires, financial woes and other…
Grant Palmer, Jules Farquhar
A photographic field guide to the mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs that occur in the region.
