Sagacity

Can anyone recommend books on Australia and expat life in general? I'm looking for good, honest accounts of what life in Australia really is like, and some memoirs / documentary books with accounts of migrant life (not necessarily in Aus.).

I've read a few books recently which I'd like to recommend:

1) Down Under, by Bill Bryson
2) Ten Pound Poms: Australia's Invisible Migrants, by A. James Hammerton
3) Driving Over Lemons: an optimist in Andalucia, by Chris Stewart

More, anyone?

lawlaw

cant think of any at the moment, i read bill bryson too but why didnt he go to brisbane????

tiredwithtwins

the fatal shore by robert hughes is a good one....i havent got past the first 16 pages, but gives a good insight into the history of australia from the early convicts.
"An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women, and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia. The fatal shore is the prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to australia." - back cover note of The Fatal Shore.