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Helen Garner
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia’s most treasured writers.
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In this second volume of diaries from one of Australia’s greatest writers, we see Garner in love; asking herself questions about relationships, individuality, morality and contentment. For readers of Lisa…
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Spanning forty years of work, True Stories is the collected essays, stories and diary entries of one of Australia’s greatest writers
Garner's first new work in a decade is a tender portrayal of the relationship between grandmother and grandson, and of that moment on the cusp of adulthood when a boy…
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In October 1997, a clever young student at the ANU murdered her boyfriend. She and her best friend were later charged with murder. Garner followed the trial in the ACT…
A gripping psychological portrait and a moving exploration of the human condition.
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Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a visit. But this is no ordinary visit - Nicola has advanced cancer. She…
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Bernadette Brennan
The first full-length study of Helen Garner’s forty years of writing - a literary portrait that maps Garner’s works against the different stages of her life.
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Sean O'Beirne
A brilliant essay by one of Australia’s most exciting literary talents, which offers new insights into Garner’s entire body of work and her life as a writer.
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For the first time ever, collected here are all three volumes of the diaries of Helen Garner, inviting readers into the world behind the novels and nonfiction of a literary…
The First Stone has been reviled and revered. At the time of publication, its author was both vilified and lionised by readers. Now, when Garner has achieved the status of…
The fragile domestic balance of a share house is exploded in this classic Australian novel about friendship, faith and miracles.
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Garner’s essays from the past fifteen years range freely across personal and cultural subjects, with characteristic insight and skilful observation.
This stylish paperback edition of Helen Garner’s collected short fiction celebrates the work of one of Australia’s most loved authors.
These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing…
A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia’s most respected authors, now available in a smaller and competitively priced format.
An elegant edition of the novel that launched Helen Garner’s career.
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This stylish paperback edition of Helen Garner’s collected short fiction celebrates the work of one of Australia’s most loved authors. These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing…
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused…
A separated husband’s car plunged into a dam, killing his sons. Accident? Revenge? Garner takes the reader inside the courtroom.
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This new edition of Helen Garner’s collected short fiction celebrates the seventy-fifth birthday of one of Australia’s most loved authors.
Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice is the tale of a journey to Antarctica aboard the Professor Molchanov. With unmatched eloquence, Helen Garner spins a tale of ships, icebergs, tourism, time, photography…
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The Spare Room offers a powerful, witty, and taut story about a complex friendship between two women–one dying, the other called to care for her–from an internationally acclaimed and award-winning…
The novel that launched the career of one of Australia's greatest writers, following the doomed infatuations of a young, single mother, enthralled by the excesses of Melbourne's late-70s counterculture
The…
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Two novellas, delving into our connections with those we love, and the pain of breaking those connections. Introduced by Michael Sala.
An elegant hardback edition of the novel that launched Helen Garner’s career.
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Now in a new edition with a foreword by Rumaan Alam, a modern classic from one of Australia's greatest writers *…
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * The engrossing true-crime classic from "a master anatomist of ordinary people in difficult times" (New York Times), that follows a man…
They say that tourist ships to Antarctica, even more than ordinary human conveyances, are loaded down with aching hearts. Deceived wives and widowers, men who’ve never been loved and don’t…
A true story of death, grief and the law “Garner’s book is a writer’s profound response to a tragedy and to questions about human responsibility over time as well as…
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In this second volume of diaries from one of Australia’s greatest writers, we see Garner in love; asking herself questions about relationships, individuality, morality and contentment.
A brilliant essay by one of Australia’s most exciting literary talents, which offers new insights into Garner’s entire body of work and her life as a writer. What I love…
Strewn with devastating honesty, sparkling humour and steel-sharp wit, these expertly arranged diaries offer a window into the life and work of one of Australia's greatest living writers
This audiobook brings Helen Garner’s short fiction together into one volume.
Her most loved stories are here: Postcards from Surfers, My Hard Heart and A Happy Story.
Garner’s focus is…
Winner of the 1997 Kibble Award for Literature, True Stories spans twenty-five years of work by one of Australia’s great writers. In passionate and compelling prose, Helen Garner writes with…
New format of this collection of personal essays by Helen Garner, which spans 25 years of work, by one of Australia’s greatest writers. Readers will be fascinated by some of…
This Australian novel is the journey of two women as their friendship is threatened by death. ‘A perfect novel’ Peter Carey
Monkey Grip is a masterpiece-the novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature: communal households, music…
A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia’s most respected authors-now in an elegant hardback edition.
