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Postcards from Surfers (Popular Penguin) by Helen Garner
9.95 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins
From one of Australia's most celebrated writers come 11 stories about the complexities of life and love; of looking back and longing; of what it means to be a stranger, on foreign ground and known, told with the piercing familiarity and resonance we have come to expect from Helen Garner. Remarkably hone ...Show more
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner
22.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life-are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humour. Each one a perfect piece, together they showcase Garner?s mastery of the form.
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner
29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life-are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humour. Each one a perfect piece, together they showcase Garner?s mastery of the form.
The Children's Bach by Helen Garner; Ben Lerner (Introduction by)
29.99 AUD
Category: CLASSICS
A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors. Athena and Dexter live a happy but insular life, bound by routine and the care of their young sons. When Elizabeth, an old friend from Dexter's university days, turns up with her much younger sister, Vicki, and her ...Show more
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
29.95 AUD
Category: BABIES & TODDLERS
A powerful, witty, and taut novel about a complex friendship between two women--one dying, the other called to care for her--from an internationally acclaimed and award-winning author How much of ourselves must we give up to help a friend in need? Helen has little idea what lies ahead--and what strength ...Show more
This House of Grief - The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
32.99 AUD
Category: TRUE CRIME | Reading Level: very good
Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way ...Show more
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
23.99 AUD
Category: TRUE CRIME
Winner, Honorable Mention, 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards, True Crime category Helen Garner won a 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for her outstanding contribution to international literature. 'Garner's book is superbly alive to the narrative dynamics of the case; she tells a grim story of unhappy ...Show more
True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
39.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her stories on the ...Show more
Yellow Notebook: Diaries, 1978-1986 (HB) by Helen Garner
29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Leigh Sales: "An incredible insight into the thinking and writing processes of one of the greatest writers in Australian history." Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked awa ...Show more