Melbourne | Sophie Cunningham

Melbourne's a city you get to know from the inside out - you have to walk it to love it. My favourite time to do this is at night. That's when you capture glimpses of people - eating, laughing, talking, arguing, watching TV and reading - through half-open terrace house doors and windows .. It is a city of inside places and conversation. Of intimacy. Melbourne begins on Black Saturday, the day that bushfires tore through the outskirts of Melbourne, destroying the townships of Marysville and Kinglake, shattering thousands of lives. Sophie Cunningham writes about what happened over the year that followed. Sit through a heatwave, visit the drains underneath the city, participate in a letterpress workshop, wander beside the Yarra, cycle alongside tram tracks and cheer at the footy. Live through the drought before the storm, the rain before yet more fire and days of searing heat. Along the way, be captivated as Cunningham shares her Melbourne, its stories and its characters. In a new introduction, Cunningham returns to Melbourne after a period away and reflects on how much her city has changed since Melbourne was first published in 2011: it is hotter, greener and has endured the rollercoaster ride - from boom times to economic depression - that defined 2020. About Sophie Cunningham 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. Sophie Cunningham is the author of six books, a former publisher and editor, was a co-founder of the Stella Prize and is now an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University's Non/fiction Lab. In 2019, Cunningham was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contribution to literature. 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 Melbourne Online Melbourne By: Sophie Cunningham ISBN: 9781742237107 ISBN-10: 174223710X Published: 1st November 2020 Format: Paperback Language: English Number of Pages: 320 booktopia.com.au Sophie Cunningham Basketball If you are looking for Sophie Cunningham the basketball player, see wikipedia.org