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Blueback by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
Abel 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 and his mother in the house at Longboat Bay, but Abel has friends in the sea, particularly the magnificent old groper he meets when diving. A ...Show more
Breath by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
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: Modern Classics | 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
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | 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 A-Z
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
In the Winter Dark by Tim Winton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jaccob sees a moving shadow. Across the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the Stubbses' house, a small dog is ...Show more
In the Winter Dark by Tim Winton
$16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jacob sees a moving shadow. Across the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the Stubbs's house, a small dog is t ...Show more
Island Home - a landscape memoir by Tim Winton
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
That Eye, The Sky by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
Ort knows the sky is watching. He knows what it means to watch; he spends long hours listening at doors and peering through cracks. Things are terribly wrong. His father is withering away, his sister is consumed by hatred, his grandmother is all inside herself, and his mother, a flower-child of the 1960 ...Show more
The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'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
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
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 and hate combine to form a young man's beliefs.For years Jaxie Clackton has dreaded going home. His beloved mum is dead, and he wishes his dad was too, u ...Show more
The Turning by Tim Winton
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of Dirt Music comes an outstanding work of fiction that will resonate with readers everywhere.Here are turnings of all kinds changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, sudden detours where people struggle against the terrible weight of t ...Show more
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