Author: Tim Winton
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, breath
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-05-26
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312428391
ISBN-13: 9780312428396

Breath 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 themselves and each other on storm swells and over shark-haunted reefs. The boys give no thought to what they could lose, or to the demons that drive their mentor on into ever-greater danger. Venturing beyond all caution--in sports, relationships, and sex--each character approaches a point fro

Author: Tim Winton
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: stories, turning
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-10-10
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0743279794
ISBN-13: 9780743279796

Set on a coastal stretch of Western Australia, Tim Winton’s stunning collection of connected stories is about turnings of all kinds -- changes of heart, slow awakenings, nasty surprises and accidents, sudden detours, resolves made or broken. Brothers cease speaking to each other, husbands abandon wives and children, grown men are haunted by childhood fears. People struggle against the weight of their own history and try to reconcile themselves to their place in the world. With extraordinary insight and tenderness, Winton explores the demons and frailties of ordinary people whose lives ar

Author: Tim Winton
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: riders
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1996-06-23
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0684822776
ISBN-13: 9780684822778

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 Scully spends weeks alone renovating the old house, Jennifer returns to Australia to liquidate their assets. When Scully arrives at Shannon Airport to pick up Jennifer and their seven-year-old daughter, Billie, it is Billie who emerges -- alone. There is no note, no explanation, not so much as a word from Jennifer, and the shock has left Billie speechless. In that instant, Scully̵

Author: Tim Winton
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: novel, music, dirt
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2003-05-13
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0743228480
ISBN-13: 9780743228480

Winner of The Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Christina Stead Award, WA Premier’s Book of the Year, Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award, Goodreading Award-Readers Choice Book of the Year Set 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, his life has become a "project of forgetting." Not until he meets Georgie Jutland, the wife of White P

Author: Tim Winton
Publisher: Picador USA
Keywords: scission
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2009-10-29
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0330412604
ISBN-13: 9780330412605

’Tim Winton is the real thing: a writer who can photograph a thought and pluck out the beat of a soul on a washing line’ - "Scotland on Sunday". In this, Tim Winton’s first collection of short stories, the world he paints is often harsh and disturbing, inhabited by isolated, unforgiving characters. It is a world at once familiar, filled with the trappings of home and family, and yet also strangely twisted; a world where casual brutality and unexpected death are never far from the surface. Evident in a young girl’s violent temper once the eggs she has so jealously guarde

Author: Tim Winton
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: fable, contemporary, blueback
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1998-03-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0684845652
ISBN-13: 9780684845654

From the author of the bestselling novel "The Riders" comes a bewitching fable sure to delight readers of all ages. A wise exploration of the difference between the acquisition of information and the quest for knowledge, Tim Winton’s gem-like ecological fable will warm the hearts of his fans. Illustrations National author publicity. .

Author: Tim Winton
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: novel, breath
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-05-27
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0374116342
ISBN-13: 9780374116347

Tim Winton is Australia’s best-loved novelist. His new work,Breath, is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one’s limits against nature, finding like-minded souls, and discovering just how far one breath will take you. It’s a story of extremes—extreme sports and extreme emotions.  On the wild, lonely coast of Western Australia, two thrillseeking and barely adolescent boys fall into the enigmatic thrall of veteran big-wave surfer Sando. Together they form an odd but elite trio. The grown man initiates the boys into a kind of Spartan ethos, a