Author Talk: Helen Pitt with Luna Park

Uncover the fascinating story behind Sydney’s Luna Park as award-winning author and journalist Helen Pitt launches her intriguing new book on the iconic venue.

Traverse an extraordinary history filled with con men and criminals, crooked cops, failed politicians and movie moguls. From the engineering feats of its construction in the dark days of the Depression to the tragic deaths of six boys and a father in the 1979 Ghost Train fire - one of Sydney's most heartbreaking unsolved mysteries - and despite financial disasters, legal battles and closures, Luna Park survives, glittering by the water.

Copies of Luna Park will be for sale in the morning by Gertrude & Alice Bookstore and Helen will be available for signings.

Helen Pitt is an award-winning journalist and author. Her first book, The House: The dramatic story of the Sydney Opera House and the people who made it, won the 2018 Walkley Book Award. She has over four decades of experience in the media, reporting from three different continents (Australia, Europe and the United States). She has worked as the Sydney Morning Herald's opinion editor, Spectrum deputy editor and as a staff news and feature writer there, and at The Bulletin, HQ magazine and New York Times Digital. This is Helen’s second book.