Garner's essays from the past fifteen years range freely across personal and cultural subjects, with characteristic insight and skilful observation.

Garner's essays from the past fifteen years range freely across personal and cultural subjects, with characteristic insight and skilful observation.

An extraordinary book of collected short non-fiction, spanning fifty years of work, by one of Australia's great writers.

In October 1997, a clever young student at the ANU murdered her boyfriend. She and her best friend were later charged with murder. Garner followed the trial in the ACT Supreme Court. This book is about how and why Joe Cinque died....

A separated husband's car plunged into a dam, killing his sons. Accident? Revenge? Garner takes the reader inside the courtroom.

First published 1902, Bush Studies is famous for an unsentimental depiction of frontier life with its particular difficulties for women.

In Monkey Grip , Helen Garner charts the lives of a generation. Her characters are exploring new ways of loving and living - and nothing is harder than learning to love lightly. Nora and Javo are trapped in a desperate...

The communal houses of the 1970s have gone. But can anything be salvaged from this past? Janet retreats to her rundown-house and tries to forget, while Ray hides in his books, waiting for his brother to reconnect him to the world....