Travel Guides
Always glance through any Travel Guide for the region you are planning to visit. You will always find some nugget of useful information. The layout and content will always vary with the publisher. Every traveller should make it a priority to browse one or all of the guides listed below. It will be a great education to browse the layout and view the excellent photography. You decide which of the travel guides you like the best.
- DK Eyewitness Travel Guide
- Insight / Discovery Channel Travel Guide
- Lonely Planet Guide
- Rough Guides
- AA Explorer, AA Key or AA Spiral Guide(s)
- Note: You will find about thirteen ( 13+ ) other publishing companies travel guides in bookstores.
Books about Brisbane
A number of authors have written of their experiences living in Brisbane. To get an idea of what life is like, consider these books.
- Johnno by David Malouf. The semi-autobiographical tale of a young man growing up in Brisbane during World War II.
- ZigZag Street by Nick Earls. A comedy which covers six weeks of Richard Derrington's life in the house his grandparents built at Brisbane's Red Hill.
- The Mayne Inheritance by Rosamond Siemon. A gripping tale of family, murder and Brisbane icons.
- He Died with a Felafel in his Hand by John Birmingam. A hilarious compilation of share house stories from Brisbane and other cities in Australia.
- The Girl Most Likely by Rachel Sparrow. Chick-lit novel which charts the ramifications of one bad decision and a quarter-life crisis for its main character, Rachel.
- One Book Many Brisbanes by various authors. This is a yearly compilation of local stories about Brisbane. Each year 10 are chosen to be published.