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Adelaide by Kerryn Goldsworthy
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
Category: Travel | 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
Category: Travel | Series: City-Lit Series
Introduction by Rory MacLean
Brisbane by Matthew Condon
Category: Travel | 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
City in Ruins (#3 The City series) by Don Winslow
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: The City Series
Following City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow's epic, genre-defining crime trilogy and the final book of Winslow's extraordinary career. Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect ...Show more
City of Dreams (#2 Cartel Trilogy) by Don Winslow
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: The City Series
Following the epic, ambitious, instant New York Times bestseller City on Fire, 'The Godfather for our generation' (Adrian McKinty), comes the dramatic second novel in an epic crime trilogy from Don Winslow, #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel trilogy (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel and ...Show more
City on Fire (#1 Cartel Trilogy) by Don Winslow
Category: Fiction | Series: The City Series
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy, The Force, and Broken comes the first novel in an epic crime saga about the Irish and Italian crime syndicates in America during the 1980s and 1990s. Two criminal empires together control all of New England.Until a beautiful modern-d ...Show more
City-pick Istanbul by Heather Reyes
Category: Travel | Series: City-Pick Series
From Ohran Pamuk, Paul Theroux and Paul Bowles to Elif Shafak, Yashar Kemal and James Baldwin and over sixty other dazzling writers, some translated for the first time.
City-pick New York by Heather Reyes
Category: Travel | Series: City-Pick Series
F Scott Fitzgerald journeys up Fifth Avenue Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo arrive in Greenwich Village Alistair Cooke looks out over Central Park David Byrne does the Five Boro Bike Tour Edmund White finds a city of freedoms Jan Morris recalls Manhattan 1945 Ian Frazier hears it for Brooklyn Teju Cole encoun ...Show more
City-pick St Petersburg by Heather Reyes
Category: Travel | Series: City-Pick Series
From Helen Dunmore, J.M Coetzee and Malcolm Bradbury to Joseph Brodsky, Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoyevsky - over sixty writers on St Petersburg, past and present.
Come with Me to Paris by Gloria Fowler; Min Heo
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: City Series
This charming rhyming book is a great introduction to the sights and culture of Paris. The book begins by inviting the reader tocome along on the journey and ends with a good night wish: "Paris is a beautiful city in France;Please come visit, should you have the chance.The French call it Paree, and the ...Show more
Dublin - City-Pick by REYES HEATHER
Category: Travel | Series: City-Pick Series
Anne Enright reveals the poetry in the Dublin soul Elizabeth Bowen stays at the Shelbourne Brian Lalor is swept along by Bloomsday Joseph O'Connor takes a wry look at Dublin man Iris Murdoch evokes the Easter Rising Roddy Doyle pities the poor immigrant J P Donleavy shows us student Dublin Hugo Hamilton ...Show more