'What a gem this book is! Oddity, wonderment, weirdness: these splendid essays reveal a marvellous Melbourne most of us have never encountered before. This is a psychogeography dense with vernacular history, humane detail, and from beneath the shadow of grief, love.' -- Gail Jones, author of Five Bells and The Death of Noah Glass '''Psychojogging ' and the pleasures of walking.' - interview with Hilary Harper on Radio National, Life Matters 'Marvellous Melbourne: the books that capture our city and its life.' - The Age/Sydney Morning Herald 'Melbourne Circle: Walking, Memory and Loss is a very special book. Just read it, and then take to the streets and walk with the same spirit of enquiry.' - Sophie Cunningham, The Age 'A beautiful meditation on the streets in which we live, ghosts, love and loss ... While there is sadness in this book, Gadd writes with warmth, humour and a generosity of spirit.' - Stephen Romei, The Weekend Australian 'An endearing book about enduring love and serendipitous discoveries; of remnants of the past pasted onto old buildings, and the way these ghost signs are portals into another time.' - The Saturday Paper