Book launch!
Tuesday 17 August at Bella Union Bar, Trades Hall, Corner of Lygon and Victoria Streets, Carlton at 6.30pm to 8.30pm.
We warmly invite you to celebrate When We Think About Melbourne - to be launched by Alan Brough. There will be door prizes -so arrive early.
RSVP appreciated: belle@affirmpress.com.au.
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August 2010
$34.95 paperback
ISBN: 978-0-9806378-8-5
When We Think About Melbourne
by Jenny Sinclair
What makes Melbourne unique? And where does it get its x-factor? Journalist Jenny Sinclair goes in search of the answers and discovers that it’s actually all in our head – or, more precisely, our collective imagination.
When We Think About Melbourne is a wry and whimsical survey of our city's creativity. It observes with a keen and appreciative eye the changing physical, social and cultural landscape of Melbourne through its literature, music, art, maps, travel and transport.
'Writer, thinker, collector and cyclist, Jenny Sinclair has produced a kind of love song to the city she loves - warts and all. From the cultural meaning of road maps, to the joy of kitsch to e-visions of the future; all via TV soapies and postcards, detective fiction and the end of the world: Sinclair’s vision is complex, insightful and multifaceted.' - Richard Evans
This title is supported by the City of Melbourne, and is co-published with the State Library of Victoria.
Jenny Sinclair
Jenny Sinclair is a Melbourne writer. She was a staff reporter for The Age from 1996 to 2004. Her fiction and non-fiction has been published in various newspapers, magazines and literary journals.
Jenny lives in the inner north of Melbourne with her husband, their son, several bikes and a collection of vintage Melways.
