Today, roughly 100,000 Gypsies call Australia home, yet their experiences have never been included in any official histories of our country.Here, award-winning memoirist and novelist Mandy Sayer weaves together a wide-ranging history of Gypsies in Australia that begins with the roots of the Romani culture, tracing the first Gypsy people to arrive in Australia (including James Squire, the colony's first brewer) through to the Gypsy families currently living in Australia, who share the stories of their ancestors and their lives.With her unconventional, nomadic early life, Mandy Sayer has a...
Today, roughly 100,000 Gypsies call Australia home, yet their experiences have never been included in any official histories of our country.Here, awar...
"I fell in love with my first misfit at the age of three. He was a disabled man in a wheelchair who sold newspapers every afternoon outside the Empire Hotel in Annandale. Whenever I glimpsed him in the distance I would break into a run, jump onto his lap, and smother him with kisses." Misfits and Me represents a selection of Mandy Sayer's non-fiction writing from the past twenty years. Each essay has been chosen to reflect a different aspect of Mandy's attraction to Australia's misfits and outsiders, with those who live in the shadows of our society.
"I fell in love with my first misfit at the age of three. He was a disabled man in a wheelchair who sold newspapers every afternoon outside the Empire...
