Read Series: Writer And The City
by Author Peter Carey
30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account (2001)
Peter Carey captures our imagination with a brilliant and unexpected portrait of Sydney.Bloomsbury is pleased to announce the second title in the phenomenally well-received Writer in the City series-in which some of the world's finest novelists reveal the secrets of the city they know best. In th...
Florence: A Delicate Case (2002)
Re-read (bought & read it in Florence in 2006 when I was staying there for a summer course) of this charming little ‘refreshing antidote to the average city guide’ as the cover says. Not always fairly judged though, just because it is not a city guide and you will be disappointed if that is what ...
Prague Pictures: A Portrait of the City (2003)
Just wonderful. Inspired me to visit, which I did a couple of months ago. The book is atmospheric and surprising - there's a remarkable tale of Banville smuggling some of Josef Sudek's photographs out of the country. It's also funny (which I didn't expect from Banville, actually). This passage on...