The Season (Garner book)

The Season
Author	Helen Garner
Subject	Biography & Autobiography
Publisher	Text Publishing
Publication date	26 November 2024
Pages	208
ISBN	9781922790750

Last updated November 09, 2026

The Season is a 2024 non-fiction work by Australian writer Helen Garner.^[1] The book follows the progress of her grandson's Australian rules football junior team, observing them at training sessions and at games.^[2] In the book, Garner writes that she started following the Western Bulldogs after watching the 1997 documentary Year of the Dogs.^[3]

References

↑ "The Season: new non-fiction from the author of This House of Grief, Monkey Grip, and The Children's Bach". National Library of Australia . Trove . Retrieved 31 December 2024.
↑ Menzies-Pike, Catriona (6 December 2024). "Review: The Season by Helen Garner – a 'nanna's book about footy' from an Australian literary great". The Guardian . Retrieved 31 December 2024.
↑ Jake Niall (23 November 2024). "'I thought, geez, this is a happy story: Helen Garner on her footy book". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 31 December 2024.

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[National_Library_of_Australia_-_2024_-_The_Season:_new_non-fiction_from_the_author_of_This_House_of_Grief,_Monkey_Grip,_and_The_Children's_Bach-1] "The Season: new non-fiction from the author of This House of Grief, Monkey Grip, and The Children's Bach". National Library of Australia . Trove . Retrieved 31 December 2024.

[The_Guardian_-_6_December_2024_-_Review:_The_Season_by_Helen_Garner_–_a_'nanna's_book_about_footy'_from_an_Australian_literary_great-2] Menzies-Pike, Catriona (6 December 2024). "Review: The Season by Helen Garner – a 'nanna's book about footy' from an Australian literary great". The Guardian . Retrieved 31 December 2024.

[The_Sydney_Morning_Herald_-_23_November_2024_-_'I_thought,_geez,_this_is_a_happy_story:_Helen_Garner_on_her_footy_book-3] Jake Niall (23 November 2024). "'I thought, geez, this is a happy story: Helen Garner on her footy book". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 31 December 2024.

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v t e Works by Helen Garner
Novels	Monkey Grip (1977) The Children's Bach (1984) Cosmo Cosmolino (1992) The Spare Room (2008)
Short story collections	Honour & Other People's Children (1980) Postcards from Surfers (1985) My Hard Heart: Selected Fictions (1988)
Screenplays	Monkey Grip (1982) Two Friends (1986) The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)
Non-fiction	The First Stone (1995) True Stories (1996) The Feel of Steel (2001) Joe Cinque's Consolation (2004) This House of Grief (2014) Everywhere I Look (2016) The Season (2024)