Helen Garner: The Feel of Steel, a collection of articles mostly about Melbourne; this writer truly captures the spirit of Melbourne: “a Melbourne sky, the sort whose hugeness you can only know by being a speck on a plain.” (Picador,2001). For a very readable social history tying place to class: Janet McCalman's Struggletown and Journeyings (Melbourne University Press).
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