Misfits and Me
Collected Non-Fiction

Mandy Sayer (Author)

9781742236100

Paperback / softback, published 30 July 2021

304 pages
23.3 x 15.5 x 1.4 cm, 0.525 kg

“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 and Me represents a selection of Mandy Sayer’s non-fiction writing from the past twenty years. Each essay has been chosen to reflect a different aspect of Mandy’s attraction to Australia’s misfits and outsiders, with those who live in the shadows of our society.

• Life
• People Power at the Ponderosa
• Wild Frontier: The Child Gangs of Tweed Heads
• The Tincture of Health
• Flying High: The Rise &
  Guise of Self-Funded Retirees
• Girls Gone Wild
• Elsie Turns 40
• The Hordes
• Love
• Love &
  Death in Darlinghurst
• Sleepless in Samoa
• A Writer in the Family
• For the Love of Dog
• My New Orleans
• The Gift of Life
• Goodbye, Porkpie Hat
• Literature &
  Art
• Thea Astley Comes Out of the Shadows
• Sex, Lies, &
  Defamation
• In Ernest: Hemingway &
  The Art of the Story
• Satirists of Suburbia
• Letter to a Young Novelist
• Shaun Prescott: Modern Misfit