Walking Sydney: Fifteen walks with a city’s writers

‘My primary mode of transport is my feet. It’s the way that I orient in the world. It’s also the way to honour being in place.’ – Jazz Money

Walking Sydney offers an invitation to join a city’s writers as they lead us through the streets and suburbs they call home. Join Michelle De Krester as she walks along the banks of the Cooks River. Gail Jones leads us around a shimmering Circular Quay. Eda Gunaydin navigates the changing landscape of Parramatta. Larissa Behrendt shows us the histories of protest and possibility in Redfern. Michael Mohammed Ahmad shares the stories of change from Punchbowl and Bankstown. Delia Falconer reveals the storied streets of Rushcutters’s Bay. Sheila Ngoc Pham wanders the streets of Yagoona. Beth Yahp shares stories of community in Bronte and Clovelly.

A wanderer’s delight, Walking Sydney is a record of a changing city and an opportunity to see the city afresh.

Contributor bio

Belinda Castles is a novelist and lecturer at the University of Sydney, and the editor of Reading Like an Australian Writer. Her novels have won the Australian/Vogel Asher Literary Awards and been longlisted for the Stella Prize, and she has been named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelists.

Edited by Belinda Castles
Published September 2025
Paperback
278 pages 
210mm x 135mm
ISBN 9781742237930