Bernadette Brennan

Helen Garner is one of Australia's most important and most admired writers. She is revered for her fearless honesty in the pursuit of her craft. But Garner also courts controversy, not least because she refuses to be constrained by the rules of literary form. She has never been afraid to write herself into her nonfiction, and many of her own...

WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE AGE NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE MAGAREY MEDAL FOR BIOGRAPHY Leaping into Waterfalls by Bernadette Brennan explores the life of Gillian Mears, a woman who appeared to many as a shy figure from Grafton, yet her reality was filled with adventure, risk, and often transgressive passion. In...