Australian novelist Helen Garner may be the best novelist you've never heard of Helen Garner, 80, embraces the many-sidedness of life. Her books crackle with curiosity and unpredictability ...

FUTURE generations of country folk in the Richmond Valley of northern New South Wales will be grateful for the tireless work Helen Trustum has done to record the region's history.

Helen Trustum is our local Woman of the Year WRITING a book, by hand, not on the computer, took Helen Trustum three years.

She may be the greatest Australian writer too many of us are yet to read. Which leads to an obvious question: does Garner herself, now 81, wish that international interest had come sooner?

“How to End a Story” collects three volumes of the Australian novelist’s self-conscious, sometimes harrowing journals.

Australian true-crime author Helen Garner has always subverted expectations of good and evil and what's worth noticing. At 80, she's earning attention in the U.S.

Helen Thurloe is an award-winning Australian writer and poet. In her debut novel, Promising Azra (Allen & Unwin), a Sydney teenager discovers that her parents are arranging for her to marry a ...

We were dismayed to see no Australians on the New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century – so, with the help of 50 experts, we created our own, all-Australian list. You can have your say, too!

A new three-part documentary series puts Australian literature firmly in the spotlight, and asks the question: can books help us understand our country?

Tim Winton, Helen Garner, Joe Aston and Nagi Maehashi – or RecipeTin Eats, as her website is called – are leading sales and helping independent bookshops stay strong.

Books may seem expensive in Australia, but they’re cheap when you take costs into account. For independent publishers, times are tough. What can we do?

Last week, Yale University granted the Australian writer Helen Garner the Windham-Campbell Prize, a purse of $150,000 awarded to around nine writers each year. But Garner received the news in her ...