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Blueback by Tim Winton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'Winton ... convince s us of the preciousness of our oceans not through lectures but through his characters' steady wonder.' New York TimesAbel Jackson's boyhood belongs to a vanishing world. On an idyllic stretch of coast whose waters teem with fish, he lives a simple, tough existence. It's just him an ...Show more
Breath: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 by Tim Winton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Filled with the lyrical genius that has earned Winton international acclaim and a loyal readership worldwide, Breath is the coming-of-age story of two thrill-seeking boys who surf for danger of all kinds on the untamed coast of Western Australia. As the two boys fall under the thrall of Sando, a veteran ...Show more
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreetis Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave th ...Show more
Cloudstreet: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1992 - TV tie-in by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 rankle, laugh and curse until the roof over their heads becomes a home fo ...Show more
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrim ...Show more
Dirt Music: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2002 - Film Tie-In by Tim Winton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Tim Winton's classic love song to land and place, full of unforgettable characters, is now a feature film starring Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Macdonald and David Wenham. Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't lo ...Show more
Eyrie by Tim Winton
$55.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An exhilarating new book from Australia's most acclaimed writer Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved literary novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record four Miles Franklin Awards for Best Australian Novel, he has a gift for language virtually unrivaled ...Show more
Eyrie by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Tom Keely's reputation is in ruins. And that's the upside.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 retired hurt and angry. He's done fighting the good fight, and ...Show more
Island Home by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
I grew up on the world's largest island.' This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful, evocative and sometimes provocative memoir of how this unique landscape has shaped him and his writing. For over thirty years, Winton has written novels in which the natural world is a ...Show more
Island Home - a landscape memoir by Tim Winton
$45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'I grew up on the world's largest island.' This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful, evocative and sometimes provocative memoir of how this unique landscape has shaped him and his writing. For over thirty years, Winton has written novels in which the natural world is ...Show more
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
On childhood holidays to the beach, the sun and surf kept Tim Winton outside in the mornings, in the water; the wind would drive him indoors in the afternoons, to books and reading. This ebb and flow of the day became a way of life.In this beautifully delicate memoir, Winton writes about his obsession w ...Show more
The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
'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 extraordinarily powerful true stories that make up The Boy Behind the Curtaintake us be ...Show more