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When Sydney Observed was first published in 1965 (under the title Sydney), and illustrated throughout with the striking photographs of Quintin F. Davis, it won instant and rapturous praise from reviewers across Australia and beyond.

Within the space of a few years it came to be regarded as the best single piece ever written about the city. 'Write the text of a new book about Sydney?' a distinguished writer asked his publisher. 'But after Souter, what's left to say?'

A second hardback edition featuring the iconic illustrations of talented fellow Sydneysider,...

Winner of the Colin Roderick Award

Lion & Kangaroo is one of Australia's great works of history, a rich chronicle of the nation's coming-of-age.

With intelligence, wisdom and wit, acclaimed historian Gavin Souter captures all the milestones of Australia's first decades, from the constitutional conventions of the nineteenth century to the turbulent years that followed World War I. Painting unforgettable portraits of scores of the most fascinating participants, he traces a national character in evolution.

Profound and...