SYDNEY: A biography, by Louis Nowra (NewSouth, $44.99)
About five years ago, on a visit to catch up with our Sydney family, we spent a few hours at Barangaroo Reserve, a reconstructed headland based on the pre-1836 shoreline. It was cut away for docklands made redundant with the advent of supertankers.
On a glorious blue-sky day in 2018, it
