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Cosmo Cosmolino - Text Classics by Helen Garner; Ramona Koval (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
'Helen Garner writes the best sentences in Australia.'Bulletin Janet is a skeptic, a journalist; Maxine revels in New Age fantasies; and Ray, a drifter, is a born-again Christian. The common ground is the house they share. But their fragile domestic balance is about to explode amid the smashing of ukel ...Show more
Honour & Other People's Children: Text Classics by Helen Garner
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Two novellas, delving into our connections with those we love, and the pain of breaking those connections. Introduced by Michael Sala.In Honour, Kathleen and Frank are amicably separated, and share the parenting of their young daughter, Flo. But when Frank finds a new partner and wants a divorce, Kathle ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Essays
Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a powerfully ambitious writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, Helen Garner rails against the confines. A ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (HB) by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography | Series: Diaries
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. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a great w ...Show more
Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests - most of them university students - had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a mas ...Show more
Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests - most of them university students - had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a mas ...Show more
Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Gripis regarded as 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, friendships, ...Show more
One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Essays | Series: Diaries
Helen Garner's 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 bombshell that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in l ...Show more
One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Essays
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
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | 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
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | 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 Feel of Steel by Helen Garner
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary Essays
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.