Nicholson Street

In spite of the fact they're travelling every second week along with the Eagles and the Dockers, and six bottles of the Bortley Wood fire.

St Andrews Hotel in Nicholson Street, Fitzroy, used to be called the Pump House, and it used to be called the St Andrews before that.

When I was working as a public servant up at a place called the Green Latrine, which was number two Springfield, you know that gaudy green building that used to be there? Mm-hmm.

And you'd go down there for the Friday pub roast, which I think was $5 or $6, and this is a tale you won't believe.

This is a beautiful pub.

It is.

St Andrews Hotel, Nicholson Street, Fitzroy.

$2 oysters, $12 is the spritz.

Did you set it here because it's on home turf or because Teddy and Alice really only make sense in Melbourne or...?

uh I guess I really love it when I find Melbourne in books I've always really enjoyed when I'm reading a book and I recognize the place uh I remember reading Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic or one of the other books in her series and at one point she's uh there's like a dead body found on Nicholson Street in Carlton and it was quite near where I was working at the time and I'm like oh that's so exciting you know you just really love to see places that you recognize there was uh I think the closest book that I found was I read, I think it was called Outrider by Mark Wales.

He was ex-SAS and he wrote a book that was set in the kind of slight future.

And in it, it was very eastern suburbs based, which is where I am.

Yeah.

And the Nicholson Street sort of shopping precinct, they all say, "Hey, come into the shops and you can...

You know, we'll give the kids lollies and stuff like that."

Lollies, yeah.