Small books, big stories. Established in 2007, Arcade publishes short reads about Melbourne’s illustrious urban history.

Jenny Lee’s Making Modern Melbourne charts the city’s story from illegal village to modern metropolis, sampling the marvellous and not-so-marvellous moments and reintroducing some of the unconventional characters who’ve shaped ‘the Queen city of the South’.

Lisa Lang’s E.W. Cole: Chasing the Rainbow traces the amazing life of the eccentric nineteenth-century bookseller and publisher of the iconic Cole’s Funny Picture Book.

Madame Brussels: This Moral Pandemonium tells the story of Melbourne’s most infamous brothel keeper. Author L.M. Robinson eloquently evokes the decadence of Melbourne’s 1880s boom era and the moral pandemonium that gripped the city at the end of the nineteenth century.

Dale Campisi has been editing and publishing books and magazines for ten years. Storytelling Melbourne’s rich and oft-forgotten urban history has been a long-time interest.

Michael Brady is an artist, designer and coordinator of public art projects. He has curated a number of independent creative projects and regularly exhibits his own artwork.

Rose Michael works at the University of Melbourne and has previously been editor of the trade press publications Bookseller + Publisher and the Weekly Book Newsletter. Her journalism and fiction has been widely published. Her first novel, The Asking Game (Transit Lounge), appeared in 2007.