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Tim Winton

Timothy John Winton (born 4 August 1960), known as Tim Winton, is an Australian novelist and short story writer.
Tim Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany.
Winton has been named a Living Treasure by the National Trust and awarded the Centenary Medal for service to literature and the community. He is patron of the Tim Winton Award for Young Writers sponsored by the City of Subiaco, Western Australia.
He has lived in Italy, France, Ireland and Greece but currently lives in Fremantle, near Perth, Western Australia with his wife and three children.
His younger brother is solo musician Andrew Winton and his younger sister is Sharyn O'Neill, the current Director General of the WA Education Department.
Whilst at Curtin University of Technology, Winton wrote his first novel, An Open Swimmer, which won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1981, launching his writing career. He has stated that he wrote "the best part of three books while at university". His second book, Shallows, won the Miles Franklin Award in 1984. It wasn't until Cloudstreet was published in 1991, however, that his writing career was properly established. His latest novel, Breath, was published in 2008.

Available Books by Tim Winton

	Dirt Music (Picador 40th) Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781742611518 RRP: $19.99 ...
	The Deep Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781863682107 RRP: $14.95 Alice's family lives by the sea. Every day they run down to the jetty and jump into the smooth, dark water. They look like a bunch of dolphins leaping and laughing. But Alice misses out. She's afraid of the deep. She's afraid of what might be down there where the water turns from green to blue and you can't see the bottom. Then, one day some new friends come into the bay and Alice ...
	Cloudstreet TV tie-in Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143205821 RRP: $26.95 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 for their hearts. Tim Winton's funny, sprawling saga is an epic novel of love and acceptance....
	Lockie Leonard Human Torpedo Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780141307305 RRP: $17.95 Lockie Leonard, hot surf-rat, is in love. The human torpedo is barely settled into his new school, and already he's got a girl on his mind. And not just any girl: it has to be Vicki Streeton, the smartest, prettiest, richest girl in the class. What chance have you got when your dad's a cop, your mum's a frighteningly understanding parent, your brother wets the bed and the teachers ta...
	Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781926428284 RRP: $29.95 In this record of a life-long love affair with the sea, Tim Winton's prose ripples, shimmers and surges with awe and respect for how the ocean has not only sustained him physically and emotionally but determined the very rhythms of his life.' FIONA CAPP, THE AGE On childhood holidays to the beach the sun and surf kept Tim Winton outside in the mornings, in the water; the wind would drive...
	Blueback Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143202837 RRP: $22.95 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. As the years pass, things change, but one thing seems to remain constant: the greed of...
	An Open Swimmer Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143010548 RRP: $24.95 Hoping it'll be like old times, Jerra and his best mate Sean set off in a beaten-up VW to go camping on the coast. Jerra's friends and family want him to finish uni, get a girl, get a job like Sean has. But what Jerra is searching for is more elusive. They don't understand about Sean's mother, or the bush, or the fish with the pearl. Only the sea, and perhaps the old man who lives...
	Cloudstreet Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143010517 RRP: $26.95 Two rural families the Pickles and the Lambs flee to the city after separate catastrophes. They find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again from scratch and for twenty years, they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until the roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts. Tim Winton's funny, sprawling saga i...
	In the Winter Dark Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143010524 RRP: $24.95 Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Then, in his orchard, Murray Jaccob sees a shadow move between the trees. Across the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. On the verandah of the Stubbses' house, a dog is torn screaming from its leash by something unseen. Nothing will ever be the same ag...
	Minimum of Two and Other Stories Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143010531 RRP: $24.95 Endurance links these small masterpieces. Winton's characters are ordinary people staring down the big challenges, the chafing frustrations, the random acts that lob across their path. They battle to make sense of things, to maintain loyalty against the odds. Their relationships strain under pressure, leaving them bewildered, hoping, sometimes fleeing, but often finding strength in forgotten p...
	Popular Penguins: In the Winter Dark Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143204718 RRP: $9.95 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 torn screaming from its leash by something unseen. Nothing will ever be the same again....
	Scission and Other Stories Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143010555 RRP: $24.95 In these spare, piercing stories, people struggle with change and disintegration. Their lives fragment, their hearts break, the world deceives. Tim Winton's first collection of short fiction, Scission shows him marking out the territory he came to stamp as his own: the gritty courage demanded by the everyday, the epiphanies to be found in the commonplace. Winton takes the mundane and renders ...
	Shallows Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143010562 RRP: $24.95 Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passing defines the rhythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begins on the beaches outside their town, and when Queenie Cookson, a local girl, joins the Greenies to make amends for the crimes of her whaling ancestors, it ca...
	That Eye, The Sky Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143010579 RRP: $24.95 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 1960s, is brave but helpless. Then a strange man appears at their door. That Eye, the Sky is a lumi...
	Penguin Modern Classics: Shallows Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143180258 RRP: $24.95 Tim Winton's first Miles Franklin Award-winner. Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passing defines the rhythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begins on the beaches outside their town, and when Queenie Cookson, a local girl, joins the Greenies to ma...
	Breath Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143009580 RRP: $24.95 ...
	Blueback Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143304333 RRP: $17.95 Abel Jackson has lived by the sea at Longboat Bay ever since he could remember. He helps his mother each day and loves to dive. One day he meets Blueback, the biggest and most beautiful fish he's ever seen. When Abel's mother is approached by developers she decides she must do something to protect their fragile piece of coastline, But can Abel and his mother save Blueback and Longboat Bay...
	Breath Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780241015308 RRP: $45.00 Breath opens with Bruce Pike, now a paramedic, arriving too late to save a teenage boy's life. Pike's partner wonders why the boy killed himself. Pike knows he didn't. He doesn't know the boy, but he knows the story. He still lives with the legacy of his own adolescence. When Loonie and Pike started to surf, they cycled from Angelus to the beach with their Styrofoam boards, b...
	Jesse Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140543292 RRP: $14.95 Early one morning, while his parents are asleep, Jesse slips on his gumboots and goes outside through the garden, past the fence, and out to explore the friendly, frightening world beyond. . . This is a warm, touching story of a child encountering the mysteries and marvels of the countryside. ...
	Lockie Leanard, Scumbuster Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330274463 RRP: $17.95 Nothing's simple for Lockie Leonard. Dumped by his girlfriend, he's back to being the loneliest kid in town until he makes friends with the weirdest human being he's ever met. As if that isn't enough, Lockie decides to save the planet. In the middle of all this the inevitable happens. Yes, he falls in love: he drops like a ton of bricks for a girl who's not even out of primary...
	Lockie Leonard, Legend Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330364621 RRP: $17.95 Lockie Leonard's survived the worst year on record. His first year of high school, settling into a new town, his first mad love affair it's all behind him. He's about to turn fourteen and things are looking up. But the world of weirdness hasn't finished with him yet. His little brother's hormones have kicked in and that's not a pretty sight. His lino-munching baby sister...
	The Turning Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330422734 RRP: $24.95 In the 1980s Tim Winton made his mark with tough, spare stories about youth and promise, of early parenthood and the challenges of loyalty. Now, almost twenty years since his last collection, he returns to the form with seventeen overlapping stories of second thoughts and mid-life regret set in the brooding small-town world of coastal Western Australia. Here are turnings of all kinds - changes of...
	An Open Swimmer Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140274028 RRP: $24.95 Jerra and his best mate Sean set off in a beaten-up old VW to go camping on the coast. Jerra's friends and family want to know when he will finish university, when he will find a girl. But they don't understand about Sean's mother, Jewel, or the bush or the fish with the pearl. They think he needs a job, but what Jerra is searching for is more elusive. Only the sea, and perhaps the old...
	The Riders Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330357395 RRP: $24.95 Fred Scully waits at the arrival gate of an international airport, anxious to see his wife and seven-year-old daughter. After two years in Europe they are finally settling down. He sees a new life before them, a stable outlook again, a fresh start, a cottage in the Irish countryside that he's renovated by hand. He's waited, sweated on this reunion. He does not like to be alone - he's t...
	Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143300960 RRP: $17.95 Lockie Leonard, hot surf-rat, is in love. The human torpedo is barely settled into his new school, and already he's got a girl on his mind. And not just any girl: it has to be Vicki Streeton, the smartest, prettiest, richest girl in class. What chance have you got when your dad's a cop, your mum's a frighteningly understanding parent, your brother wets the bed and the teachers take an...
	Aussie Bites: The Bugalugs Bum Thief Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143300847 RRP: $12.95 Illustrated by Stephen Michael King. Skeeta Anderson woke up one morning to find that his bum was gone. And not only his bum - but the bum of every single person in the town of Bugalugs. It's up to Skeeta to catch the thief . . ....
	Scission & Other Stories Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140274011 RRP: $24.95 Tim Winton's first collection of stories deals with men, women and children whose lives are coming apart and whose hearts are breaking. These spare, jagged stories, in which people struggle with change and disintegration, are vintage Winton....
	Penguin Modern Classics: Cloudstreet Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140273984 RRP: $26.95 The Modern Australian Classic. 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 for their hearts. A funny, sprawling saga of love and acceptance...
	That Eye, the Sky Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140274042 RRP: $24.95 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 1960s, is brave but helpless. Then a strange man appears at their door. That Eye, the Sky is about l...
	In the Winter Dark Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140274035 RRP: $24.95 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 torn screaming from its leash by something unseen. Nothing will ever be the same again....
	Minimum of Two & Other Stories Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140273991 RRP: $24.95 Tim Winton's characters are ordinary people who battle to maintain loyalty against all odds; women, children, men whose relationships strain under pressure and leave them bewildered, hoping, sometimes fleeing, but often finding strength in forgotton parts of themselves....
	The Riders Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330356602 RRP: $19.95 Fred Scully can't wait to see his wife and daughter. He's got a new life for them all worked out. He's sweated on this reunion. The doors at the airport hiss open. Scully's life falls apart . . ....

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	Blueback Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330360388 Abel Jackson loves to dive. He's a natural in the water. He can't remember a time when he couldn't use a mask and snorkel to glide down into the clear deep. Life is tough out at Longboat Bay. Every day the boy helps his mother earn their living from the sea and the land. It's hard work but Abel has the bush and the sky and the bay to himself. Until the day he meets Blueback, ...
	Blueback Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330361620 Abel Jackson loves to dive. He's a natural in the water. He can't remember a time when he couldn't use a mask and snorkel to glide down into the clear deep. Life is tough out at Longboat Bay. Every day the boy helps his mother earn their living from the sea and the land. It's hard work but Abel has the bush and the sky and the bay to himself. Until the day he meets Blueback, ...
	Blueback Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330422147 Abel Jackson loves to dive. He's a natural in the water. He can't remember a time when he couldn't use a mask and snorkel to glide down into the clear deep. Life is tough out at Longboat Bay. Every day the boy helps his mother earn their living from the sea and the land. It's hard work but Abel has the bush and the sky and the bay to himself. Until the day he meets Blueback, ...
	Blueback Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780732909123 A Fable For All Ages Abel Jackson was ten years old and could never remember a time when he could not dive. His mother said he was a diver before he was born; he floated and swam in the warm ocean inside her for nine months so maybe it came naturally. He had lived by the sea at Longboat Bay his whole life. Every day was special. But it all became much more precious the day he first shook hand...
	Cloudstreet - Gift Edition Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670042920 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 for their hearts. Tim Winton's funny, sprawling saga is an epic novel of love and acceptance....
	Cloudstreet - Gift Edition Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670885039 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. In that big house there's Sam and Dolly Pickles and their three children, and Lester and Oriel Lamb and their brood, including sons Quick and Fish. For twenty years the lot of them laugh and curse un...
	Dirt Music Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780330363235 Woman overboard. This is how Georgie Jutland feels, aged forty, drinking too much, living with a man haunted by the memory of his dead wife, with two stepchildren, a discarded career, and precious few friends. Spending her days keeping the household running smoothly, and her evenings watching the blinking icons on the computer screen, she's adrift again. Not like her fisherman partner Jim. ...
	Dirt Music Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780330363273 Woman overboard. This is how Georgie Jutland feels, aged forty, drinking too much, living with a man haunted by the memory of his dead wife, with two stepchildren, a discarded career, and precious few friends. Spending her days keeping the household running smoothly, and her evenings watching the blinking icons on the computer screen, she's adrift again. Not like her fisherman partner Jim. ...
	Dirt Music Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330363679 Woman overboard. This is how Georgie Jutland feels, aged forty, drinking too much, living with a man haunted by the memory of his dead wife, with two stepchildren, a discarded career, and precious few friends. Spending her days keeping the household running smoothly, and her evenings watching the blinking icons on the computer screen, she's adrift again. Not like her fisherman partner Jim. ...
	Dirt Music Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330364430 Woman overboard. This is how Georgie Jutland feels, aged forty, drinking too much, living with a man haunted by the memory of his dead wife, with two stepchildren, a discarded career, and precious few friends. Spending her days keeping the household running smoothly, and her evenings watching the blinking icons on the computer screen, she's adrift again. Not like her fisherman partner Jim. ...
	Land's Edge Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330361101 'Then it just bubbles; silence and a corona of bubbles that billows blue about my head. I gaze about dreamily until I understand. I am underneath the upturned boat with thirty kilo line floating around my legs and I am drowning.' Despite our outback mythology, Australians are coastal people and it's hard to think of a more thoroughly coastal writer than Tim Winton. In his novels fo...
	Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140366518 At twelve-and-three-quarter years, Lockie Leonard, hot surf-rat, is in love. A story about sexual awakening and morality; about standing by your principles or ignoring them to belong to the group....
	Lockie Leonard, Legend Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330360029 Lockie Leonard's survived the worst year on record. His first year of high school, settling into a new town, his first mad love affair - it's all behind him. He's about to turn fourteen and things are looking up. But the world of weirdness hasn't finished with him yet. His little brother's hormones have kicked in and that's not a pretty sight. His lino-munching baby si...
	Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330360166 Nothing's simple for Lockie Leonard. Dumped by his girlfriend, he's back to being the loneliest kid in town until he makes friends with the weirdest human being he's ever met. As if that isn't enough, Lockie decides to save the planet. In the middle of all this the inevitable happens - yes, he falls in love: he drops like a ton of bricks for a girl who's not even out of pri...
	Scission & Other Stories Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140257663 Tim Winton's first collection of short stories deals with men, women and children whose lives are coming apart and whose hearts are breaking. These spare, jagged stories, in which people struggle with change and disintegration, are vintage Winton....
	Shallows Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140274004 Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passing defines the rhythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begins on the beaches outside their town, and when Queenie Cookson, a local girl, joins the Greenies to make amends for the crimes of her whaling ancestors, it ca...
	The Bugalugs Bum Thief Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140347340 What happens when everyone's bums in the whole town are stolen? And how do you get them back? A wacky story from an award-winning author....
	The Deep Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781863682428 Alice's family lives by the sea. Every day they run down to the jetty and jump into the smooth, dark water. They look like a bunch of dolphins leaping and laughing. But Alice misses out. She's afraid of the deep. She's afraid of what might be down there where the water turns from green to blue and you can't see the bottom. Then, one day some new friends come into the bay and Alice ...
	The Turning Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780330421386 In the 1980s Tim Winton made his mark with tough, spare stories about youth and promise, of early parenthood and the challenges of loyalty. Now, almost twenty years since his last collection, he returns to the form with seventeen overlapping stories of second thoughts and mid-life regret set in the brooding small-town world of coastal Western Australia. Here are turnings of all kinds changes of...
	The Turning Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330422086 In the 1980s Tim Winton made his mark with tough, spare stories about youth and promise, of early parenthood and the challenges of loyalty. Now, almost twenty years since his last collection, he returns to the form with seventeen overlapping stories of second thoughts and mid-life regret set in the brooding small-town world of coastal Western Australia. Here are turnings of all kinds - changes of...

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