Mandy Sayer: 6 books

I danced and danced because the neon light across the road had just blinked on, because it was the middle of spring, because I was twenty-one, because my father was playing beside me. . . . In this vivid, seductive, gorgeously written memoir, Mandy Sayer recounts the fascinating years she spent...

Velocity tells the moving, painful but often hilarious story of Mandy Sayer's childhood and adolescence, a life lived on the edges - of society, of poverty, of certainty, of love. Filled with beautifully realised descriptions of life seen through a child's eyes - a child who gradually comes to realise...

Today, roughly 100,000 Gypsies call Australia home, yet until now their experiences have been hidden from our history, and from our present.Here, award-winning memoirist and novelist Mandy Sayer weaves together a wide-ranging and exuberant history of Gypsies in Australia. She begins with the roots...

“I fell in love with my first misfit at the age of three. He was a disabled man in a wheelchair who sold newspapers every afternoon outside the Empire Hotel in Annandale. Whenever I glimpsed him in the distance I would break into a run, jump onto his lap, and smother him with kisses.” Misfits...

From an award-winning Australian novelist comes a wonderfully inspiring story about the ill-fated love affair between a white female jazz saxophonist and a black American GI, set against the backdrop of 1940s Sydney. From an award-winning novelist comes a wonderfully inspiring story about the...

I looked out my window one morning and there she was, Gina Delgado, dressed up like a peacock in her high heels and all, standing between my front gate and a moving bulldozer, with her arms and legs apart in this sort of over my dead body pose, see? An inner-city community is under threat from...