True Stories

• To celebrate Helen Garner's 75th birthday, we are proud to publish this collection of almost fifty years of her short non-fiction • True Stories is presented in an elegant hardback edition • This edition brings together the essays, stories and diary entries of True Stories, The Feel of Steel and Everywhere I Look as well as later work • This is a must-have for long-time Garner fans and the perfect gift for the many readers who continue to discover her work • With the critical and commercial success of Everywhere I Look, the prestigious US Windham–Campbell Award and her burgeoning international recognition, Helen Garner has consolidated her status as a fundamental part of Australia's literary pantheon • Published earlier this year, Bernadette Brennan's bestselling literary portrait—A Writing Life—has drawn enthusiastic praise and cemented Garner as a writer whose work will be read and studied for decades to come • James Wood wrote in the New Yorker: 'She is everywhere at once, watching and listening, a recording angel at life's secular apocalypses...her unillusioned eye makes her clarity compulsive.' • To be supported by a high-profile marketing and publicity campaign • Helen Garner lives in Melbourne