Monkey Grip is a masterpiece-the novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature: communal households, music, friendships, children, love, drugs, and sex. This...

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. Focussing on how and why Joe Cinque died, this...

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...

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...

In Forty-one False Starts one of the world's great writers of literary non-fiction brings together for the first time essays published over several decades.

Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola. She is coming to Melbourne to receive cancer treatment she believes will cure her. From the moment Nicola steps off the plane, Helen becomes her nurse, her protector, her...

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...