Canberra
A love letter and a reckoning — the capital as only a local could tell it.
Part of NewSouth's much-loved city series, Paul Daley's Canberra is the book that takes the capital seriously as a place — not just a Parliament, but a landscape, a history and a home. Daley writes as a local who knows its limestone plains, its dispossession and its design-competition dreams, moving between memoir, reportage and deep history to capture what the city actually feels like from the inside. It is the ideal gift for the thoughtful Canberran, the new arrival wanting to understand where they have landed, or the expat who left and still can't quite explain the pull. Slim enough to read in a weekend, rich enough to change how you see the place — a genuinely grown-up portrait of a city too often reduced to a punchline.
- Paul Daley's acclaimed portrait of the national capital
- Part of NewSouth's celebrated city series
- History, memory and character of Canberra in one slim volume
- A thoughtful gift for locals, expats and the curious