The First Stone by Helen Garner

The First Stone by Helen GarnerHelen Garner was born in Geelong in 1942, and now lives in Sydney. Since her novel 'Monkey Grip' appeared in 1977, she has published four more books of fiction and a great deal of journalism. She wrote the screenplay for the feature movie 'The Last Days of Chez Nous'. This is her first non fiction book.

When her fragile universe is rocked by tragedy

Big Red and his mob of kangaroos wait for night-time when they can search for food

plus one of the best depictions of stepmother-hood I've ever read

There shall be NO SECRETS

the invisible terror outside in Leave the World Behind echoes the sense of disquiet today in a world convulsed by the pandemic'

Along the way we surely learnt intriguing things about equations

Tarana Burke

and goes down like (bread and) buttah' New York Times 'A wonderful book about how families love

Although light-hearted in tone

and his knowledge of their customs and stories was unique

What a Ripper

she receives word of Freddie's death in action along with his uniform -but something doesn't quite make sense