Helen Garner
By the Author
Honour and Other People’s Children
In Honour, Kathleen and Frank are amicably separated, in contact through shared parenting of their young daughter, Flo. But when Frank finds a new partner…
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Cosmo, Cosmolino
'He straightened his spine, raised his head, and extended his gun arm towards me in a slow, vertical arc. I saw then what he was,…
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Stories
This volume of collected short fiction gathers and celebrates the work of one of Australia's most loved authors. These stories that delve into the complexities…
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True Stories
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students…
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The Season
I'm trying to write about footy and my grandson and me. About boys at dusk. A little life-hymn. A poem. A record of a season…
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The Mushroom Tapes
In July 2023, in a quiet Australian country town, Erin Patterson - stay-at-home mother and true crime devotee - invited her husband's devoutly Christian family…
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How to End a Story
'There are very few writers that I admire more than Helen Garner' DAVID NICHOLLS 'The greatest, richest journals by a writer since Virginia Woolf's' RACHEL…
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One Day I’ll Remember This
'A voice of great honesty and energy' ANNE ENRIGHT 'There are very few writers that I admire more than Helen Garner' DAVID NICHOLLS 'It is…
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This House of Grief
Dua Lipa's Book Club Pick for August 2025 One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 'A true-crime classic and literary masterpiece'…
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The Children’s Bach
'A jewel of a novel about a perfect family falling apart' DAVID NICHOLLS 'A slim, deeply humane work that tingles with life' THE TIMES 'One…
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Monkey Grip
'Seductive as hell. Brilliant, unusual, breathtaking' LAUREN GROFF 'Languid, beautiful' ANOTHER MAGAZINE 'Its pages radiate sex and heat, chlorine and rock'n'roll' MADELAINE LUCAS In 1970s…