Adrift in Melbourne: A tour of Melbourne and its forgotten stories from a beloved Australian historian

Melbourne’s streets have always been marvellous—but the proud facades of the nineteenth-century boom aren’t the half of it.

What about the stories behind them?

The great corset scandal of Melbourne’s belle epoque;

The heritage-listed toilets out the back of the Rialto;

The exploits of the women who ran the brothels in Little Lonsdale Street;

The reason George Mallaby starred in Homicide wearing a hat two sizes too small.

This book contains a series of walks created by Robyn Annear to showca...