WRITERS AND BOOKS ABOUT ST KILDA

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The list below includes over fifty novels, non-fiction works, biographies, autobiographies and screenplays which features scenes and events set in St Kilda and/or are written by prominent writers who live or lived in St Kilda. They were collated for a walk undertaken in February 2005 for the St Kilda Writers Festival by Meyer Eidelson

• The Mystery of the Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume
• My Brother Jack by George Johnston
• A Fine and Private Place by Brian Mathews
• Candy by Luke Davis
• Chick Lit; Starstruck; by Melanie la Roy
• Shantaram by Greg Roberts
• The Fiftieth Gate by Mark Baker
• The George by Gillian Upton
• The Watcher in the Cast-Iron Balcony by Hal Porter;
Finding God in St Kilda. Streets of Hope by Tim Costello
• Wicked but Virtuous by Mirka Mora
• The French Consul’s Wife. Memoirs of Celeste Chabrillon in Gold-rush Australia by Patricia Clancy and Jeanne Allen (ed);
• Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
• Peace Crimes by Sandy McCutcheon
• Republic of Women by Merrill Findlay
• Queen of the Flowers by Kerry Greenwood
• Guide to Gay and Lesbian Australia Neal Drinnan
• Stilletto magazine by Sisters in Crime
• Murder in Montparnass by Kerry Greenwood:
• Romulus My Father, Good and evil an Absolute Conception; A Common humanity; Thinking about Love and truth and Justice by Raimond Gaita
• Pushing Time Away. My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna by Peter Singer
• Books Tanks and radio, Stories from a Family of Survivors by Meyer Eidelson
• The Front of the Family by Renata Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
• Ron Barrassi’s Football Clinic by Ron Barrassi
• The Secret Life of Us screenplay
• Mr Feltons Bequest by John Poynter
• Pots Punks and Punters. Hotels of St Kilda and South Melbourne by Becky Aizen;
• Granny by Meyer Eidelson
• Chopper, From the Inside Mark Read
• The History of St Kilda Vol 1 by John Cooper
• I Saw it at the Flickers by John Howson Smith
• The Screening of St Kilda by Peter Fogarty
• Peepshow by Leigh Redhead
• Gothic Australian by Janine Burke
• Joy Hester by Janine Burke
• The Term of his Natural Life by Marcus Clark
• Eye to Eye by Caroline Shaw
• A Place of Sensuous Resort. Buildings of St Kilda by Richard Peterson;
• The Castlemaine Murders by Kerry Greenwood
• A Fine and Private Place by Brian Mathew
• Scheherazade by Arnold Zable;
• Blood Guilt by Lindy Cameron
• Bleeding Hearts by Lindy Cameron
• Above the Waves by Margaret Bearman
• Its On the Telly by Tracey Harvey
• The Boyds. A Family Biography by Brenda Niall
• What God Wants by Lily Brett
• Make a Man of Him by Pam Baker
• Tunnel Vision by Dorothy Johnstone
• Three Dollars by Elliot Perlman