Tim Winton
1) Breath
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Falling under the spell of an enigmatic extreme-sports surfer, a thrill-seeking pair of western Australian adolescents is initiated into a world of high-stakes adventures and dangerous boundary testing.
2) Eyrie
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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 among English-language novelists. His work is both tough and tender, primordial and new--always revealing the raw, instinctual drives that lure us together and rend us apart. In Eyrie, Winton crafts the story of...
3) Dirt music
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Despite her marriage to Jim Buckridge, Georgie Jutland has never really become a part of his inbred fishing community, and her tentative link to conventional life is further jeopardized when she begins a love affair with Luther Fox, the local poacher andoutcast.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In The Shepherd's Hut, Winton crafts the story of Jaxie Clackton, a brutalized rural youth who flees from the scene of his father's violent death and strikes out for the vast wilds of Western Australia. All he carries with him is a rifle and a waterjug. All he wants is peace and freedom. But surviving in the harsh saltlands alone is a savage business. And once he discovers he's not alone out there, all Jaxie's plans go awry. He meets a fellow exile,...
6) The turning
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
TIM WINTON'S THE TURNING is a unique cinema event. Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary peoples lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably...
7) Dirt music
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The fervent attraction between Georgie, a woman stuck in a loveless relationship, and Lu, a musician with a tragic past, gets the better of them when secrets are uncovered that will change their lives.