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The Children's Bach by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: 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 Children's Bach by Garner Helen
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Children's Bach by Helen Garner
$19.99 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 Feel of Steel by Helen Garner
$24.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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.
The First Stone: 25th Anniversary Edition by Helen Garner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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: Australian Non fiction
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: Film & TV | 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: Fiction
A powerful, witty, and taut novel about a complex friendship between two women--one dying, the other called to care for her--from an internationally acclaimed and award-winning author How much of ourselves must we give up to help a friend in need? Helen has little idea what lies ahead--and what strength ...Show more
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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: Australian Non fiction
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
True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
$23.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: good
New format of this collection of personal essays by Helen Garner, which spans 25 years of work, by one of Australia's greatest writers. Readers will be fascinated by some of the events that shaped her life as a writer and as a person.