Kings Cross

<p>Louis Nowra burrows beneath the sensationalist <em>Underbelly</em> 'sex and sin' narrative revealing stories and a cast of characters – some household names others little-known - that not even a writer could conjure up.</p><p><em>Kings Cross</em> is a no-holds barred place where backpackers prostitutes strippers chefs mad men poets beggars booksellers doctors gangsters sailors musicians drug traffickers eccentrics judges and artists live side by side. Part flaneur part historian and part eyewitness Louis Nowra is the best possible guide to a place both real and a state of mind.</p>