Kings Cross
eBook - ePub

Kings Cross

A Biography

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Kings Cross

A Biography

About this book

A longtime resident of Kings Cross, celebrated Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter Louis Lowra, in an ode to the neighborhood, cajoles readers into reimagining the most infamous and misunderstood place in Australia, a magnet for bohemianism, cosmopolitanism, and organized crime. In a wildly energetic book that walks the streets, sits in bars, chats with locals, and spends time in clubs and apartments where the walls, if they could talk, would tell a story or two, Nowra traverses the history and the future of his beloved neighborhood. He burrows beneath the sensationalist narrative of an underbelly of sex and sin to reveal stories and a cast of characters too astonishing to be fictitious. Backpackers, prostitutes, strippers, chefs, poets, beggars, booksellers, doctors, gangsters, judges, artists, and others live side-by-side in Kings Cross, and eyewitness, historian, and man-about-town Louis Nowra is the perfect guide to a no-holds-barred place that is as much physical as it is a state of mind.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Author’s Note
  6. Prologue
  7. They’ve Come to Stay
  8. Doncaster Hall
  9. The Quarrel
  10. Falling
  11. William Street
  12. The Swells of Woolloomooloo Hill
  13. Brougham Street
  14. A tap on the car window
  15. The Revolutionary and the Book Collector
  16. Victoria Street
  17. ‘The Golden Age’
  18. Neon
  19. The Underbelly of Australia’s Montmartre
  20. Last orders
  21. ‘There was a Disgraceful State of Things Going on There’
  22. Fire
  23. Reaching for the Sky
  24. Beggars
  25. Kings Cross is Different
  26. Kellett Street
  27. Little Europe
  28. The Devil is a woman
  29. Kings Cross Road
  30. Septic Tanks
  31. ‘You find this ugly, I find it lovely’
  32. Bayswater Road
  33. The Neon Lights are Being Turned on Again
  34. Women on the Edge
  35. Llankelly Place
  36. The Glittering Mile
  37. Roslyn Street
  38. ‘It was Like a Horror Movie in Slow Motion’
  39. Fitzroy Gardens
  40. Kitchen of Hell
  41. Macleay Street
  42. Halfway Between a Circus and a Sewer
  43. The performing self
  44. Rejuvenation
  45. Darlinghurst Road
  46. We ♥ Kings Cross
  47. Notes
  48. Acknowledgements