Melbourne | Sophie Cunningham

Sophie Cunningham's book Melbourne is not your average local history book. Stories of Cunningham's school days in Hawthorn and publishing adventures in Fitzroy and Carlton sit alongside the colonial settlement of Melbourne, the damming and many diversions of the Yarra, and events like the West Gate Bridge disaster of 1970, in which 35 construction workers fell to their deaths, or the infamous Hoddle Street massacre. Cunningham writes, 'The cityscape has been embroidered over the years with impressions of these larger public dramas, moments that nestle alongside more private and fleeting experiences. Review by Jo Case | readings.com.au | Buy Online Sophie Cunningham is a Melbourne-born writer and editor working as an editor and publisher for McPhee Gribble/Penguin, Lonely Planet and Allen & Unwin. Her work has been published in The Best Australian Essays 2000, and The Best Australian Fiction in 2003 and 2007. Her first novel, Geography, was published in 2004 and her second, Bird, in 2008.