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Spanning 15 years of work, Everywhere I Look is an audiobook full of unexpected moments, sudden shafts of light, piercing intuition, flashes of anger and incidental humour. It takes us from backstage at the ballet to the trial of a woman for the murder of her newborn baby. It moves effortlessly from the significance of moving house to the pleasure of rereading Pride and Prejudice.

This House of Grief is a heartbreaking audiobook by one of Australia's most admired authors. Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way on a Sunday morning, across the great volcanic plain.

This collected short fiction celebrates one of Australia’s most loved authors. These stories - that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life - are all told with Helen Garner's characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humour. Each one a perfect piece, together they showcase Garner’s mastery of the form.

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, and stood still in front of him, for he was here on business. He was a small, serious, stone-eyed angel of mercy. 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 smashing of ukeleles, the unexpected ascension of an angel and a sudden shower of jonquils.

Wie begleitet man die beste Freundin auf ihrer letzten Reise? Als sie ihre Freundin Nicola einlädt, für eine dreiwöchige Krebstherapie bei ihr zu wohnen, ist Helen nicht bewusst, was es bedeutet einen sterbenden Menschen zu begleiten. In einer glasklaren Sprache, getragen von liebevollem Humor, erzählt Helen Garner vom Ringen um das Leben, um eine Freundschaft und einen würdevollen Tod. Auf Wunderheilung hofft Nicola vergebens - es ist Helen Garner die ein Wunder vollbringt: wir lesen eine tieftraurige Geschichte und fühlen uns bewegt, gestärkt, amüsiert und auf wundersame Weise versöhnt mit der gebrechlichen Einrichtung unserer Welt.