Andrew McGahan, 1988

Book cover Andrew McGahan, 1988, St Leonard's, Allen & Unwin, 1995 and street plaque, Albert Street, Brisbane, photographed by Kris Anderson. Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Andrew McGahan, 1988

The glow in the sky. Orange streetlights. Outlying suburbs. It was beautiful. The highway turned onto the six-lane arterial. We came in through Oxley and Annerley, flowing with the traffic. Then the city high rises were in view, alight, multicoloured. Brisbane. It was impossibly beautiful.

Andrew McGahan, 1988, St Leonard’s, NSW, Allen and Unwin,1995, p 308

Location

Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1995
1 October 2010
1 October 2010
1 October 2010
308
Allen and Unwin
St Leonard’s, NSW
Literary mapping of Brisbane in the 1990s
Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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David Malouf, Johnno, 1975

Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely! I have taken to wandering about after school looking for one simple object in it that might be romantic, or appalling even, but there is nothing. It is simply the most ordinary place in the world.

David Malouf, Johnno, St Lucia, UQP, 1975, p 51

Location

Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1975
1 October 2010
1 October 2010
1 October 2010
51
UQP
St Lucia
Literary mapping of Brisbane in the 1990s
Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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Nick Earls on Zigzag Street

There was a time when I, like a lot of other people, didn't appreciate Brisbane. It took me a while to work out that in terms of fiction Brisbane has a lot to offer. It's a great place to live, it has the colour and the characters and it's really coming into its own as a literary place to live. I love it here and I think that comes through in Zigzag Street.

Nick Earls, 1996

From Francis Whiting, ‘Fact makes great fiction’, Sunday Mail, 8 September 1996, p 21

Location

Zig Zag Street
Red Hill, QLD
Australia
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8 September 1996
1 October 2010
1 October 2010
1 October 2010
21
Sunday Mail
Literary mapping of Brisbane in the 1990s
Zig Zag Street
Red Hill, QLD
Australia
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Literary mapping of Brisbane in the 1990s

The literary mapping of Brisbane underwent a major shift in the 1990s.

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Victoria and Grey Street Bridges, Brisbane, c1934

'A river city is held together by its bridges, collects them like sutures across a wound’ from Simon Cleary, The comfort of figs, St Lucia, UQP, 2008, p91.

Victoria (replaced 1969) and Grey Street Bridges (now William Jolly), Brisbane, c1934. Postcard, Sidues Series, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

City of Brisbane, c1906

Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1906
30 August 2010
30 August 2010

Location

Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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30 August 2010
Brisbane
Queensland Government

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Brisbane River

City of Brisbane, c1906. From Queensland: The Winter Paradise of Australasia, c1906, Brisbane, Queensland Government. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Cyclists' Road Map, Brisbane and Surrounding Districts, 1896

Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1896
5 August 2010

Location

Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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Brisbane
Surveyor General's Department

Collection of the National Library of Australia

1 mile to an inch
Bicycling through Brisbane, 1896
The sporting landscape

The Cyclists’ Road Map of Brisbane and Surrounding Districts, 1896 was produced by the Surveyor General’s Department in two sheets and priced at one shilling per sheet. It stated, ‘All roads shown on this map have been ridden over by Officers of the Survey Department’. The map key indicates ‘Roads, Railways, Telegraph Stations, Omnibus Stands and Finger Posts’.  It contains comments, speculation and personal observations relating to the state of the roads, amenities and features of the landscape. This is sheet one of two. Collection of the National Library of Australia.

Advertisement Calile Malouf & Sons, 1933

Advertisement for the drapery store Calile Malouf & Sons, located at Adelaide Street, Brisbane City, from Courier Mail, 20 December 1933, p18

Calile Malouf & Sons, c1910

Calile Malouf & Sons Drapery, located in Adelaide Street, Brisbane, c1910. In 1923 Michael Calile Malouf who described himself as being of 'Syrian nationality, born at Mount Lebanon in Syria and resident 30 years in Australia' and residing in South Brisbane applied for naturalisation.
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