ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Who better to tell the stories of Sydney's infamous Kings Cross than renowned writer and long-time resident Louis Nowra?
A place full of myths and true tales, it has been the home and haunt of bohemians, criminals, eccentrics, refugees from respectability - people on the edge of civilised behaviour on the edge of the big city centre. It has also been a magnet for those craving cosmopolitanism and something bigger, bolder and brighter than suburban life.
A celebration of a place with arguably more character - and more characters - than anywhere else in Australia! Lindy
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Louis Nowra burrows beneath the sensationalist Underbelly ‘sex and sin’ narrative, revealing stories and a cast of characters – some household names others little-known - that not even a writer could conjure up.
Kings Cross is a no-holds barred place where backpackers, prostitutes, strippers, chefs, mad men, poets, beggars, booksellers, doctors, gangsters, sailors, musicians, drug traffickers, eccentrics, judges and artists live side by side.
Part flaneur, part historian and part eyewitness, Louis Nowra is the best possible guide to a place both real and a state of mind.
