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3 December 2022

9:00 AM

3 December 2022

9:00 AM

Sydney: A Biography Louis Nowra

NewSouth Publishing, pp.498, $39.99

As is the case with one of my favourite Australian writers and playwrights, Louis Nowra, Sydney is also my adopted city.

Although from 1977 to the 1990s I worked in Brisbane, like Nowra, I was born and educated in Melbourne. I too have fallen in love with the beguiling city of Sydney.

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Ross Fitzgerald is Emeritus Professor of History and Politics at Griffith University. His most recent  book is My Last Drink: 32 stories of recovering alcoholics, coedited with Neal Price (Connor Court).

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