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Cosmo Cosmolino - Text Classics by Helen Garner; Ramona Koval (Introduction by)
$12.95 NZD
Category: Classic 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
Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
$29.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
I pedal over to Kensington just after dark. As I roll along the lane towards the railway underpass, a young Asian woman on her way home from the station walks out of the tunnel towards me. After she passes there’s a stillness, a moment of silent freshness that feels like spring. Helen Garner is one of A ...Show more
Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
$30.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies | Reading Level: very good
Garner is a 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient for her non-fiction writings. The judges praised Garner's work as 'intelligent, lucid and often disturbing.' PRAISE FOR EVERYWHERE I LOOK'A captivating collection...No matter the topic, Garner is a charming and courageous writer whose distinctive voice ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (HB) by Helen Garner
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
$24.95 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
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
$27.99 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
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: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law by Helen Garner
$32.95 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
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.
One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
$28.00 NZD
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
$11.99 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies | 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
$37.00 NZD
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.
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
`Garner is a natural storyteller.' James Wood, New Yorker This handsome edition of Helen Garner's collected short fiction celebrates the seventy-fifth birthday 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 l ...Show more