'Being a copper's son, I've always got one eye out for trouble. I can't help it. But I don't go looking for it anymore.'In Tim Winton's fiction, chaos shapes the lives of his characters. So too Winton's own life. The...

The natural world, in Tim Winton's novels, is as much a living presence as any character, and what is true of his work is true of his life. From boyhood, his relationship with sea, scrub and swamp has been as vital as blood...

In a lonely valley, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jacob sees a moving shadow. His neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the...

Tim Winton's characters are ordinary people who battle to maintain loyalty against all odds; women, children, men whose relationships strain under pressure and leave them bewildered, hoping, sometimes fleeing, but often finding...

From the Booker shortlisted author of Dirt Music and Cloudstreet, Eyrie is a heart-stoppingly moving novel for our times.

The final volume in the iconic Penguin Australian Children's Classics series, Blueback is a deceptively simple allegory about a boy who matures through fortitude, and finds wisdom by living in harmony with all forms of life. A...

Jerra and Sean set off to go camping on the coast. Jerra's family wants him to finish uni, get a girl, get a job like Sean has. But what Jerra is searching for is more elusive. They don't understand about Sean's mother, or the...

From separate catastrophes two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again from scratch. For twenty years they roister and...