Sydney: A Biography is Louis Nowra's love letter to his adopted city
Louis Nowra's inspired biography of Sydney starts with a surprise visit to the city. He grew up in a housing commission estate in Melbourne. In 1959, while on a trip with his father to Wollongong in a truck to pick up a load of coke (for fireplaces, not drinking), his father took a detour - to Sydney. Nowra was nine.
After being driven through congested inner-city streets, he found himself on the Sydney Harbour B