In the 1980s Tim Winton made his mark with tough, spare stories about youth and promise, of early parenthood and the challenges of loyalty. Now, almost twenty years since his last collection, he returns to the form with seventeen overlapping stories of second thoughts and mid-life regret set in the brooding small-town world of coastal Western Australia.
Here are turnings of all kinds – changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, sudden detours – where people struggle against the terrible weight of the past and challenge the lives they've made for themselves.
Beautifully crafted, and as tender as they are confronting, these elegiac stories examine the darkness and frailty of ordinary people and celebrate the moments when the light shines through.
From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of Dirt Music comes an outstanding work of fiction that will resonate with readers everywhere.
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The Thing Around Your Neck
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals including Granta, and won the International PEN/David Wong award in 2003. Purple Hibiscus, her first novel, ... Buy or find out more →
A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In 'Immortality', winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblan... Buy or find out more →
Mothers And Sons
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
"T ib n is a writer of extraordinary emotional clarity... These are beautiful stories, beautifully crafted" (Literary Review)
Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding t... Buy or find out more →
Dark Roots
$22.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
This collection of prize-winning short stories opens up worlds of small, finely observed detail, which go on resonating in the reader's mind long after the story is finished. From the awkward strain of dissolving relatio... Buy or find out more →
New Australian Stories
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
This eclectic anthology of new stories showcases some of our finest short-story writers and proves that the short story is alive and well in Australia. From seasoned practitioners of the form through to rising and emergi... Buy or find out more →
The Turning
$24.95 – Paperback book / Picador
In the 1980s Tim Winton made his mark with tough, spare stories about youth and promise, of early parenthood and the challenges of loyalty. Now, almost twenty years since his last collection, he returns to the form with ... Buy or find out more →