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Published 31 October 2023
ISBN 9781922790453
Format Hardback
Extent 336pp
AU Price $35.00
NZ Price $40.00

Corners of Melbourne

The great orange-peel panic and other stories from the streets



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Beloved Melbourne historian Robyn Annear takes us on an unorthodox tour of the city’s streets and corners, telling stories about the events and people that have made these the most interesting places to be

What better defines a city than its street corners? A corner gives you a starting point, a destination and a place to turn. It’s furnished with pillar boxes, newsstands and tram stops, and lamp-posts for light and lounging. Where would you be likeliest to find a pub? At the corner, of course.

And who better than Robyn Annear to usher you around the corners of Melbourne, and reveal their bizarre, baroque and mostly forgotten stories?

In this (appropriately corner-shaped) book she will introduce you to:
street-corner ‘galvanisers’ who offered the thrill of electric shock at threepence a time
the rude boys of the Fitzroy back streets who became the original ‘larrikins’
infants named for the corners on which they’d been abandoned
a rogues’ gallery of unruly women, incorrigible men and runaway horses
…and, of course, the civic reprobates who discarded orange peel in the streets, to the risk of life and limb.

Published 31 October 2023
ISBN 9781922790453
Format Hardback
Extent 336pp
AU Price $35.00
NZ Price $40.00

About the author

Robyn Annear

Robyn Annear is the author of eleven books of history, including Bearbrass, A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker’s Melbourne, Nothing New, Adrift in Melbourne and Shutter City: Fragments of a forgotten Melbourne. She appeared in the acclaimed 2022 documentary, The Lost City of Melbourne. In her podcast, ‘Nothing on TV’, Robyn presents stories from Trove historical newspapers.

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Praise for Corners of Melbourne

Unearths the quirkier anecdotes from Melbourne streets we walk today.

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