30 DAYS IN SYDNEY
Peter Carey Bloomsbury $28

Back in 2001 Bloomsbury added this title to their The Writer & the City series which they have progressively added to over the years so that today there are some six titles in the series.

The Writer and the City series are beautifully produced, pocket-sized books featuring great authors writing about cities they know best.

The latest in the series is Ghost Town, a new book by Patrick McGrath about New York McGrath was one of the guests at the recent NZ Post Writers & Readers Week.

To read an extract from Rio de Janeiro, click hereTo read selected excerpts from Prague Pictures, click here.For an extract from The Flâneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris, click here.To read an extract from 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account, click here.To read an extract from Florence, A Delicate Case, click here.

Now Bloomsbury have issued Peter Carey’s title in paperback. Good on them but for me I’ll take the gorgeous little hardcover original edition everytime.