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One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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
One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary | 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
Postcards from Surfers by Helen Garner
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
These stories are about 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. Honest, often very funny and always woven in ways that surprise, the se stories tease out everyday ...Show more
Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice Short Black 4 by Helen Garner
$6.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Short Blacks
'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 know why, Russian crew forced to leave their children behind for years at a time ...And then there are the married ...Show more
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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, of the pain, darkness and joy of life-are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, ...Show more
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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
$30.00 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; Ben Lerner (Introduction by)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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 Children's Bach by Helen Garner
$20.00 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
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian | 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 - A Novel by Helen Garner; Rumaan Alam (Introduction by)
$55.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A masterful novel chronicling the steady unraveling of a content, yet cloistered suburban family, seduced by the counterculture of the 1980s "The Children's Bach is [Garner's] masterpiece."--Public Books Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed ...Show more
The Feel of Steel by Helen Garner
$24.95 AUD
Category: 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.