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Tim Winton
An epic novel of determination, survival, and the limits of the human spirit. This is Tim Winton as you’ve never read him before.
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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…
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‘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…
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The Shepherd’s Hut is an exquisite, brutal coming of age novel. It tells the story of Jaxie, a boy on the run from his past, and explores the way love…
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Marked by Winton’s signature ear for dialogue, these are three searing plays about survival, mourning, and the remarkable gift of redemption.
Tim Winton’s homage to the ocean and his childhood is a magnificent celebration of life at its limits.
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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…
Blueback is an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia’s best-loved authors.
From the Booker shortlisted author of Dirt Music and Cloudstreet, Eyrie is a heart-stoppingly moving novel for our times.
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Continuing on from Tim Winton’s award-winning novel Dirt Music, Signs of Life reflects on the ways in which people with radically different histories form awkward, spiky alliances in order to…
An Open Swimmer is a remarkable first novel by one of Australia’s most loved and respected writers, Tim Winton.
Tim Winton’s first collection of stories deals with men, women and children whose lives are coming apart and whose hearts are breaking. These spare, jagged stories, in which people struggle…
Full of unforgettable characters, Dirt Music is Tim Winton’s classic love song to land and place.
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Tim Winton’s first Miles Franklin-winner, Shallows revolves around the ruthless commerce of whaling, and Queenie Cookson, who joins the fight to end it.
Tim Winton’s Breath, winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, is a story about the wildness of youth and learning to live with its passing.
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton’s sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and…
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That Eye, the Sky is Tim Winton’s luminous novel about a boy’s vision of the world beyond, and about finding a way through cataclysm.
Tim Winton’s classic novella about the insidious grip of fear. In the Winter Dark is spellbinding.
The Riders, the novel that brought Tim Winton his first Booker Prize shortlisting, charts an odyssey across Europe, a transfixing journey through the underworld of every lover’s nightmare.
Geraldine Brooks
A gift of an essay that illuminates the literary talents of two of Australia’s greatest writers.
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…
Divorced and unemployed, he’s lost faith in everything precious to him. Holed up in a grim highrise, cultivating his newfound isolation, Keely looks down at a society from which he’s…
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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…
Abel Jackson has lived by the sea at Longboat Bay ever since he could remember. He helps his mother each day and loves to dive. One day he meets Blueback…
Best selling author, Tim Winton, delivers the iconic trio of books (for chidren) that are still the foremost definitive text for contemporary Australian life for teenage boys.
Skeeta Anderson woke up one morning to find that his bum was gone. And not only his bum, but the bum of every single person in the town of Bugalugs…
Bestselling author, Tim Winton, delivers the iconic trio of books that are still the foremost definitive texts on contemporary Australian life for teenage boys.
Abel Jackson lives by the sea at Longboat Bay. He helps his mother each day and loves to dive. One day he meets Blueback, the biggest and most beautiful fish…
From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of Dirt Music comes an outstanding work of fiction that will resonate with readers everywhere.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-331) and index.
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Perhaps more than any other Australian writer, Tim Winton challenges neat distinctions between the literary and the popular . His award-winning books are lauded by critics and widely studied in…
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Tim Winton is at his most viscerally powerful in this boy’s vision of the world: the dreamed, the lived, the imagined, and the sharp consolations of faith. Tim Winton is…
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An extraordinary collection of tales about breaking hearts and jagged lives, from a master of the short story.
Tim Winton’s Shrine is searing play about the way in which we try to own our dead, and the way in which they come to own us.
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A wise, passionate and compelling investigation into how our landscape makes us who we are.
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Winner of the Australian/Vogel Award for Best First Novel, this is at once a haunting and powerful exploration of the horrors and joys of adulthood.
In an isolated valley four lives are disrupted by the deepest fears of night.
In Tim Winton’s fiction, chaos waits in the wings and ordinary people are ambushed by events and emotions beyond their control.
Winton’s own life has also been shaped by havoc…
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Lockie Leonard, hot surf-rat, is in love. The human torpedo is barely settled into his new school, and already he’s got a girl on his mind. And not just any…
Breath is a story about the wildness of youth - the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don’t -…
Shortlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize, Dirt Music is a captivating novel about the possibility and power of love.
Alice overcomes her fear of deep water when playful dolphins visit her family’s beach.
From separate catastrophes, two rural Australian families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again.
