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  • Writing Life
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    Writing Life

    Brennan, Bernadette

    The first full-length study of Helen Garner's work, and a lively literary portrait that maps Garner's writing against the different stages of her life. Helen Garner is one of Australia's most...
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  • Yellow Notebook
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    Yellow Notebook

    The first volume of private diaries from the fearless, fierce and much-loved Helen Garner, is now available in paperbackFinally, Helen Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world...
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  • Stories
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    Stories

    Garner, Helen

    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...
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  • Monkey Grip
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    Monkey Grip

    An elegant hardback edition of the novel that launched Helen Garner's careerHelen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded...
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  • How to End a Story : Diaries 1995-1998
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    How to End a Story : Diaries 1995-1998

    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...
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  • How to End a Story
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    How to End a Story

    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...
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  • Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice: Short Black 4
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    Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice: Short Black 4

    Regions of Thick-Ribbed Iceis the tale of a journey to Antarctica aboard the Professor Molchanov. With unmatched eloquence, Helen Garner spins a tale of ships, icebergs, tourism, time, photography...
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  • Monkey Grip
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    Monkey Grip

    Garner, Helen

    Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded as a masterpiece-the novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a...
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  • True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction
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    True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction

    An extraordinary book of collected short non-fiction, spanning fifty years of work, by one of Australia's great writers.Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees...
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  • Spare Room
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    Spare Room

    Garner, Helen

    'I see why people rave about her, I will now too.' Samantha Harvey 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...
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  • Wrappings
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    Wrappings

    The most influential book of stories that shaped the new Australian women's writing is back. Wrappings was first published in 1974, and as Helen Garner wrote at the time: "I liked Wrappings… The...
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  • This House of Grief
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    This House of Grief

    A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, 2014Anyone 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...
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  • True Stories
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    True Stories

    Garner, Helen

    Spanning forty years of work, True Stories is the collected essays, stories and diary entries of one of Australia's greatest writers. Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian...
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  • The Thorn in the Flesh
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    The Thorn in the Flesh

    Its theme is simple: a tale of Miss Susan Brady, a woman with ideas above her station, who is spurned, and whose jealousy corrodes her life and drives her to try and sabotage the happiness of John...
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  • A Dead Lie A Dead Lie
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    A Dead Lie

    Claire Sheldon

    A DEVOTED WIFE. THE PERFECT MOTHER. A DARK PAST SHE'LL DO ANYTHING TO OUTRUN. MEET DETECTIVE JEN GARNER.The past won't stay buried . . . and neither will she.Jen Garner's life is a delicate balancing...
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  • One Day I'll Remember This
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    One Day I'll Remember This

    Garner, Helen

    In this second volume of diaries from one of Australia's greatest writers, we see Garner in love; asking herself questions about relationships, individuality, morality and contentment. This volume...
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  • Season
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    Season

    Garner, Helen

    Garner's first new work in a decade is a tender portrayal of the relationship between grandmother and grandson, and of that moment on the cusp of adulthood when a boy is both child and man. It's...
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  • Children's Bach
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    Children's Bach

    Garner, Helen

    A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors-now in an elegant hardback edition Athena and Dexter live a happy but insular life, bound by routine and the...
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  • Islands
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    Islands

    Frew, Peggy

    There was a house on a hill in the city and it was full of us, our family, but then it began to empty. We fell out. We made a mess. We draped ourselves in blame and disappointment and lurched around,...
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  • Schumacher Way Schumacher Way
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    Schumacher Way

    Ann Arata

    The world is restless with change during the summer of 1915. As modern technologies kindle optimistic dreams and a women's movement develops, three sisters and their mother vacation in the now...
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  • Dear Santa
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    Dear Santa

    Samuel Johnson

    If you could ask Santa for absolutely anything, what would you ask for? Samuel Johnson OAM, Australia's favourite skylarker, brother and determined cancer vanquisher, has asked his friends and...
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  • Watch Tower: Text Classics
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    Watch Tower: Text Classics

    Harrower, Elizabeth

    'Elizabeth Harrower's thrilling 1966 novel The Watch Tower comes rampaging back from decades of disgraceful neglect: a wartime Sydney story of two abandoned sisters and the arrival in their lives of...
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  • Unpolished Gem
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    Unpolished Gem

    Pung, Alice

    The twentieth-anniversary edition of a modern Australian classic This story does not begin on a boat. Nor does it contain any wild swans or falling leaves. In a wonderland called Footscray, a girl...
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  • Six Square Metres
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    Six Square Metres

    Life lessons from the ground up.Sometimes you reap what you sow. Sometimes you reap what other people sowed. Sometimes you haven't got a clue what you are sowing, and sometimes you just get lucky, or...
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  • Writing True Stories
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    Writing True Stories

    Patti Miller

    Patti Miller's best-selling Writing True Stories is the essential book for anyone who has ever wanted to write a memoir or explore the wider territory of creative nonfiction. It provides practical...
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  • Children's Bach
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    Children's Bach

    Garner, Helen

    A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors, now available in a smaller and competitively priced format. A captivating and deeply personal novel from one...
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  • The Son's Story
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    The Son's Story

    Marie-Helene Lafon

    WINNER OF THE PRIX RENAUDOT 'This took my breath away, again and again. Lafon is magic ... A thrilling read in Stephanie Smee's masterful translation' Anna Funder, Sunday Times bestselling author of...
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  • Going Home
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    Going Home

    Tom Lamont

    'A spirit-lifting debut'DAVID MITCHELL'I will never forget these characters: so pained and funny, so brilliantly drawn, wrestled with and forgiven'HELEN GARNER'Meltingly warm'OBSERVERLocal boy Teo...
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  • Maestro
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    Maestro

    Peter Goldsworthy

    Against the backdrop of Darwin, that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia, a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the...
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  • Sun Was Electric Light
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    Sun Was Electric Light

    Morton, Rachel

    A beautifully told story about a disillusioned woman searching for love and belonging from the winner of the 2024 VPLA Unpublished Manuscript Award. Perfect for fans of Deborah Levy and Rachel Cusk,...
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  • EK VISHRANTI STHAL EK VISHRANTI STHAL
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    EK VISHRANTI STHAL

    HELEN GARNER

    IN HER FIRST NOVEL IN FIFTEEN YEARS, HELEN GARNER WRITES ABOUT THE JOYS AND LIMITS OF FEMALE FRIENDSHIP UNDER THE TRANSFORMING PRESSURE OF ILLNESS. ""THE CLEAR-EYED GRACE OF HER PROSE"" IN THIS...
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  • Their Fathers' Land: For King and Empire
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    Their Fathers' Land: For King and Empire

    In Egypt, in Gallipoli and in France, they are many who sleep beneath a small wooden cross and each cross will testify to people over there that we from downunder knew how to fight for a noble ide....
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  • Writing True Stories
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    Writing True Stories

    Patti Miller

    Patti Miller's best-selling Writing True Stories is the essential book for anyone who has ever wanted to write a memoir or explore the wider territory of creative nonfiction. It provides practical...
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  • Rose
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    Rose

    Suzanne Falkiner

    The voyage of Rose de Freycinet, the stowaway who defied the French for love. In 1814, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, nineteen-year-old Rose Pinon married handsome naval officer Louis de...
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  • State of Origin
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    State of Origin

    David Owen Kelly

    When David was a kid, he thought he knew everything - especially about his pesky and annoying siblings who kept popping up out of nowhere. But on the same night in 1980 David's two brothers ran away,...
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  • Burrow
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    Burrow

    Cheng, Melanie

    'How rare, this delicacy-this calm, sweet, desolated wisdom.' Helen Garner 'Stupendously good' Christos Tsiolkas In her unforgettable new novel, Victorian Premier's Literary Award-winner Melanie...
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  • Teachers Who Change Lives
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    Teachers Who Change Lives

    Teachers Who Change Lives concerns outstanding teachers, and the qualities that enable them to help change students lives for the better. It focuses on learning and teaching as a relationship.Most of...
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  • Light Sleeper
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    Light Sleeper

    Leser, David

    This is a book of inner rending and tearing: it will hack at the numbed, bewildered heart. Helen Garner What happens when the story you were raised to believe collides with the reality you can no...
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  • How to Make a Woman
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    How to Make a Woman

    Darrieussecq, Marie

    Winner of the Grand Prix de l'heroine, 2024, Darrieussecq's new novel explores feminine identity and social pressures upon women through the story of an intense friendship. Rose tries to appeal to...
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  • Stasiland
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    Stasiland

    Funder, Anna

    Anna Funder's Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Stasiland is an Australian classic, the definitive account of tyranny and resistance in the former East Germany. 'Fascinating, entertaining, hilarious,...
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  • See What You Made Me Do
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    See What You Made Me Do

    Hill, Jess

    A completely updated edition of Jess Hill's groundbreaking investigation of domestic abuse. National bestseller and winner of the Stella Prize Domestic abuse is a national emergency: one in four...
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  • The Healing Party The Healing Party
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    The Healing Party

    Micheline Lee

    Evocative, taut and wryly funny, this stunning novel is about faith and lies, the spirit and the fleshEstranged from her family, Natasha is making a life for herself in Darwin when her sister calls...
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