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Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice Short Black 4 by Helen Garner
$6.99 AUD
Category: Essays | 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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
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
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | 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: Australian author
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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
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 First Stone: 25th Anniversary Edition by Helen Garner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Series: GARNER. HELEN
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 First Stone has been reviled and revered. At the time of publication, its auth ...Show more
The First Stone: Some Questions About Sex and Power by Helen Garner
$22.95 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
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 Last Days of Chez Nous and Two Friends: Text Classics by Helen Garner; Laura Jones (Afterword by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
These screenplays showcase the range of one of Australia's greatest writers.The Last Days of Chez Nous was directed by Gillian Armstrong in 1991, andTwo Friends by Jane Campion in 1986. These funny, sharp observations of relationships and friendships are as intimate and engrossing as Helen Garner's ac ...Show more
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
$23.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
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
This House of Grief - The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | 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: Biography & Memoir
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