Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award and now a major film.When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than his colleague, better than the kid's parents, what happened and how. Thirty years before, that dead boy could have been him. A relentlessly gripping and deeply moving novel about the damage you do to yourself when you're young and think you're immortal.“An absorbing, powerful and deeply beautiful nov...

Now a major motion picture, starring Simon Baker, Elizabeth Debicki, and Richard Roxburgh.Breath, by renowned Australian author Tim Winton, is a story of risk, of learning one's limits by challenging death.On the wild, lonely coast of Western Australia, two thrill-seeking teenage boys fall under the spell of a veteran big-wave surfer named Sando. Their mentor urges them into a regiment of danger and challenge, and the boys test the...

Charlotte Wood’s The Writer's Room is essential reading for writers at all stages of their careers, and also pure reading pleasure for booklovers everywhere. Charlotte's interviews with a wide variety of well-known writers, range in topic from the subject matter of the writers' work to intricate - and intimate - revelations about the ways in which they work. Frank about the failures and successes, the struggles and triumphs of the writing life, this is a must-read for writers and readers.

Amiel Sander, a sixteen-year old boy of Planet Troy, is in search of a mysterious Truth about his Army Prodigy Father who is missing. One day at the library, he finds some clues and an unfinished work of his Father. As he strives to resolve the unknown about his Father to restore their lost family pride, he wants to complete his unfinished work too, but his dream and destination seem far-off from the reach of a commoner like him.Far somewhere, General Henry and Scientist George Watk...

When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than anyone what happened and how. Thirty years before, that dead boy could have been him. Bruce remembers what it was like to be a risk-taking kid, to feel that thrill and that fear . . .Breath by Tim Winton is the story of Bruce and his best friend Loonie, and the obsession that changed both of their lives. It is about the exhilaration of the sea and the waves, the treacherous addic...

The Begerkz shipwrecked on planet earth. A magical story set in beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada. To escape his difficult home life, twelve yr old Jimmy Ross immerses himself in a world of Comic Book Superheros, retreating to the woods to find solitude when he can. There he discovers a hidden world, inhabited by Begerkz, a tiny alien race who crash landed on Earth.