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One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Following on from last year's Yellow Notebook, Helen Garner's much-anticipated second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the furore th ...Show more
Sisters by Drusilla Modjeska (Editor); Gillian Mears; Elizabeth Jolley; Helen Garner; Beth Yahp; Dorothy Hewett
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Edited by Drusilla Modjeska, acclaimed author of The Orchard, Poppy and Exiles at Home, this famous anthology explores the sometimes joyous, sometimes vexed world of sisters, with stories and essays by six of Australia's finest writers comprising: Gillian Mears; Elizabeth Jolley; Helen Garner; Beth Yahp ...Show more
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.
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.
The Children's Bach by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Athena and Dexter Fox lead a contended family life with their sons, Arthur and Billy. Dexter is gregarious and opinionated. Athena runs an ordered household. But the arrival of Dexter's old friend Elizabeth, and her charismatic companions, reveals a world in which contingency and choice play a far great ...Show more
The Children's Bach by Helen Garner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors.There was a piano in the kitchen and during the day Athena would shut herself in there under the portrait of Dexter's father and pick away at Bartok's Mikrokosmos or the easiest of Bach's Small Preludes. Preludes to w ...Show more
The Children's Bach by Helen Garner; Ben Lerner (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 Feel of Steel by Helen Garner
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Helen Garner's second non-fiction collection moves through loss and desolation into moods of wonder, hilarity and beauty. This weave of working journalism with longer essays has the texture of a memoir, and offers a personal portrait of an always surprising talent.
The First Stone: Some Questions About Sex and Power by Helen Garner
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography
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 was the head of their co-ed residential college. The shock of these charges split the community and painfully focused the debate ...Show more
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no ordinary visit Nicola has advanced cancer. She is coming to Melbourne to receive treatment she believes will cure her. From the moment Nicola steps off the plane, Helen becomes her ...Show more
True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
$24.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Non-Fiction in 1996 Helen Garner writes about everything from visiting the morgue to getting the sack for teaching her schoolkids about sex.
True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
$23.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
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 the events that shaped her life as a writer and as a person.