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Juice
A page-turning epic about survival and resilience from the twice Booker-shortlisted author
2024
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**Longlisted for The Climate Fiction Prize 2026One of The Guardian's best sci-fi books of the year.An epic post-apocalyptic thriller, perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Road, from twice Booker-shortlisted author Tim Winton.**'A hold-your-breath adventure . . . Juice will stab your conscience and break your heart’ - Emma Donoghue, author of RoomSurvival is only the beginning.Two fug...
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Island Home
A Landscape Memoir
2017
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The writer explores his beloved Australia in a memoir that is "a delight to read [and] a call to arms . . . It beseeches us to revere the land that sustains us" ( Guardian).From boyhood, Tim Winton's relationship with the world around him?rock pools, sea caves, scrub, and swamp?has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea between surfing sets, Winton has felt the place...
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or Free with Kobo PlusThe Riders
the Booker Prize-shortlisted novel of one man's search across Europe for the woman he loves
2011
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**Soon to be a movie starring Brad Pitt**Shortlisted for the Booker Prize'Unforgettable' - The Observer'A magnificently readable novel' - Sunday Telegraph'Makes the senses jump. Concentrated, passionate, invigorating' - IndependentFred Scully is determined to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. For months he has laboured alone to make their dilapidated cottage habitable, and now his w...
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Cloudstreet
An emotional family drama set against a vivid Australian landscape
2014
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**Winner of the Miles Franklin AwardCloudstreet is Tim Winton's epic family drama, a story of love and turmoil spanning decades.**‘Magnificent’ – The New York Times‘Winton is just one of the best’ – IndependentNo. 1 Cloudstreet: a broken-down house on the wrong side of the tracks, a place teeming with memories, with shudders and shadows and spirits.From sep...
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2018
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Fierce and lyrical, The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton is a story of survival, solitude and unlikely friendship. Most of all it is about what it takes to keep hope alive in a parched and brutal world.For years Jaxie Clackton has dreaded going home. His beloved mum is dead, and he wishes his dad was too, until one terrible moment leaves his life stripped to nothing. No one ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for.And so Jaxie runs. Th...
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2014
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An "intelligent...artfully rendered" (The New York Times Book Review) exploration of marriage and the rich relationship that can exist between father and daughter, The Riders is a gorgeously wrought novel from the award-winning author Tim Winton.After traveling through Europe for two years, Scully and his wife Jennifer wind up in Ireland, and on a mystical whim of Jennifer's, buy an old farmhouse which stands in the shadow of a castle. While Scull...
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Breath
A Coming of Age Story and a Love Letter to Surfing and the Sea
2009
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‘Exhilarating’ – Sunday Times‘Rapturous’ – Sunday Telegraph‘A remarkable tale of grace and danger’ – Financial TimesWhen 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 an...
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2011
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Tim Winton's That Eye, the Sky is a tale about a boy’s vision of the world beyond, and the blurry distinctions between the natural and supernatural.At twelve years old, Morton – Ort for short – is not quite a child, but not yet an adult; his isolated outback world is an intriguing combination of boyish innocence, adolescent confusion and burgeoning awareness. When his father is seriously injured in a car crash, however, that world is suddenly thrown into c...
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Dirt Music
A Novel
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- Award-Winning Fiction
2002
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Winner of The Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Christina Stead Award, WA Premier’s Book of the YearSet in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, Dirt Music tells the story of Luther Fox, a broken man who makes his living as an illegal fisherman—a shamateur.Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, Fox grew melons and counted stars and loved playing his guitar. Now, h...
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2011
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‘These stories are a wonderful introduction to his quirky fictional world – gutsy, funny, lyrical but unpretentious.' – IndependentTim Winton’s second short-story collection explores the complexity of human relationships through the themes of futility and hope, revenge and redemption, birth and death that twist through each tale in turn, emerging, re-emerging, competing, conflicting. As characters, too, surface and reappear, their lives are slowly, painstakingly revealed. ...
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2011
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Tim Winton delivers a truly spine-tingling thriller with In the Winter Dark.When a man dreams things from the past, you’d think he’d be able to rearrange them in new sequences to please himself. But no. In my dreams, it all happens as it happened, and I see it and be it again and again and the confusion never wears off.People drift to the valley called the Sink out of loneliness, hardship or an affinity with the land. It i...
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2017
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Cloudstreet is an epic stage adaptation of Tim Winton’s enormously successful and muchloved novel of the same name.Set in post-war Perth, Cloudstreet follows the fluctuating fortunes and changing relationships of two families—the Lambs and the Pickles—who inhabit the same rambling old house. Collectively their stories, told over a twenty-year period, interweave to tell a much bigger story: the recent history of Australia as experienced by its communities and citiz...
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