'Addictive' diaries win prestigious non-fiction prize

Helen Garner's How to End a Story: Collected Diaries is first diary to win Baillie Gifford prize.

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How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner charts the Australian writer's life from the early stages of her career in bohemian Melbourne, to raising her daughter in the 1970s, and her experience of a disintegrating marriage in the 1990s.

Garner's previous work includes 2014's The House of Grief, which told the story of Robert Farquharson on trial for the murder of his three sons.

Famous fans include fellow writer David Nicholls, and singer Dua Lipa, who said: "Helen Garner's work is a thrilling discovery. She's one of the most fascinating writers I have come across."

Chair of judges, Robbie Millen, said How to End a Story was the judges' unanimous winner, praising it as "a remarkable, addictive book".