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Tim Winton Books In Order

Lockie Leonard Books In Publication Order

  1. Human Torpedo (1990)
  2. Scumbuster (1993)
  3. Legend (1997)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. An Open Swimmer (1982)
  2. Shallows (1984)
  3. That Eye, the Sky (1987)
  4. In the Winter Dark (1988)
  5. Cloudstreet (1991)
  6. The Riders (1996)
  7. Blueback (1997)
  8. Dirt Music (2002)
  9. Breath (2008)
  10. Eyrie (2013)
  11. Hatched (2013)
  12. The Shepherd’s Hut (2018)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Land’s Edge (1993)
  2. Australian Colors: Images Of The Outback (1998)
  3. Down to Earth (With: Richard Woldendorp) (2000)
  4. Smalltown (With: Martin Mischkulnig) (2009)
  5. Island Home (2015)
  6. The Boy Behind the Curtain (2016)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Small Mercies (2020)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Scission (1985)
  2. Minimum of Two (1987)
  3. Blood and Water (1993)
  4. The Turning (2004)

‘s Children’s Books In Publication Order

  1. Jesse (1990)
  2. The Bugalugs Bum Thief (1991)
  3. The Deep (1998)

‘s Plays In Publication Order

  1. Rising Water (2012)
  2. Signs of Life (2013)
  3. Shrine (2014)

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Tim Winton Books Overview

Human Torpedo

Lockie Leonard, the Human Torpedo, has arrived in town. He gives teachers a tough time, and surfs like there is no tomorrow. But no one wants to know the city kid whose Dad is a cop and who doesn’t believe in violence. That is, until Lockie becomes the president of the new surfers club and the boyfriend of the most popular girl in the school. 4 male, 2 female.

Scumbuster

Nothing’s simple for Lockie Leonard. He’s only lived in town for a year and his dad’s the local police sergeant, two facts that don’t win Lockie any popularity contests. Dumped by his popular girlfriend, he’s back to being the loneliest kid in town until he makes friends with Geoff Eggleston, or Egg, the weirdest human being Lockie’s ever known. Egg is a dark haired, pimply faced, very bright ‘Metal Head’ who can’t even swim, though their town is right on the Australian coast. By contrast, Lockie is a trim, blond, expert surfer. Lockie and Egg decide to somehow clean up the town’s harbor, partly covered with scum from industrial waste. In the middle of all their planning, Lockie falls in love again, with a girl who turns out to be only eleven. To make it worse, she surfs better than he does, though he’s the best in his school. Can a thirteen year old surfrat have a headbanger for a best friend, stay in love with an eleven year old gremmie, and still save his town from industrial pollution? Tim Winton is a prize winning Australion novelist whose The Riders was short listed for the 1996 Booker Prize. He himself is an, expert surfer. With rich characterization, strong narrative drive, and much humor, Winton has written a contemporary story that reflects the concerns of all teenagers and will reach a wide audience.

An Open Swimmer

A fishing trip marks the end of Jerra and Sean’s friendship, although once, when they were younger and more innocent, it would have seemed unbelievable that the bond between them could ever be broken. But growing up has meant growing apart, the differences between them widening, sharpening their teasing words into something crueller and less easy to forgive. ‘Both a serial romantic and a truly gifted novelist’ Mariella Frostrup, ‘Mail on Sunday’. ‘Winton’s writing is a heady blend of muscular description, deep sentiment and metaphysics’ ‘Sunday Telegraph’.

Shallows

One hundred and fifty years after the establishment of land based whaling in Australia, its last outpost is Angelus, a small town already struggling for survival. Long dormant passions are awakened by the arrival of the conservationists, who threaten the town’s livelihood and disturb the fragile peace under which its inhabitants live. ‘Full of strikingly described action…
an imaginative reconstruction of primitive whaling and the personal suffering involved…
Tim Winton, in this admirable novel, deals with pride, loneliness, longing for love and the struggle between nostalgic heroes and the heroism of compassion’. ‘The Times’. ‘All this is dazzling, dazzling. It makes the heart pound’. ‘Los Angeles Times’. ‘A moving and powerful elegy…
Winton writes vividly, and with courage, about serious matters in a cynical world. ‘Observer’. ‘A major work by anyone’s standards…
mysterious, painful and beautiful’. ‘Washington Post’.

That Eye, the Sky

This is a tale about a boy’s vision of the world beyond, and the blurry distinctions between the natural and supernatural. At twelve years old, Morton Ort for short is not quite a child, but not yet an adult; his isolated outback world is an intriguing combination of boyish innocence, adolescent confusion and burgeoning awareness. When his father is seriously injured in a car crash, however, that world is suddenly thrown into complete disarray and the whole family have to adjust. As Ort, his sister, mother and grandmother are struggling to come to terms with what has happened, a stranger appears in their midst. Preaching God’s word, Henry Warburton’s unexpected arrival seems eerily prescient, at a time when the family most need a helping hand, and Henry quickly makes himself indispensable. In fact, for Ort in particular, it is Henry’s presence, perhaps more even than his father’s accident, that brings the greatest change to his world. ‘Towards the end of the novel, Ort prays for a miracle: ‘Funny when you talk to God. He’s like the sky…
Never says anything. But you know he listens’. Though God hasn’t answered Ort yet, Mr. Winton convinces us he might’ ‘New York Times’. ‘The great strength of the novel is in the way the grotesque contrasts and parallels in human life are spread out, examined and accepted’ ‘Los Angeles Times’.

In the Winter Dark

When a man dreams things from the past, you’d think he’d be able to rearrange them in new sequences to please himself. But no. In my dreams, it all happens as it happened, and I see it and be it again and again and the confusion never wears off. People drift to the valley called the Sink out of loneliness, hardship or an affinity with the land. It is an isolated place, with a swamp and an old white bridge and the forest encroaching from all sides. The solitude is tangible. But when a mysterious creature is suddenly on the loose, killing livestock and preying on everyone’s deepest fears, four inhabitants find themselves unexpectedly in one another’s company with chilling results. ‘Tim Winton’s raw and vibrant language makes the senses jump…
concentrated, passionate, invigorating writing’ ‘Independent on Sunday’. ‘A major work by anyone’s standards…
mysterious, painful and beautiful’ ‘Washington Post’.

Cloudstreet

‘A fragmented, hilarious, crude, mystical soap opera. In a rich Australian idiom, Winton lets his characters rip against an evocation of Perth so intense you can smell it’ Sunday Telegraph Cloudstreet a broken down house of former glories on the wrong side of the tracks, a place teeming with memories of its own, a place of shudders and shadows and spirits. From separate catastrophes, two families flee to the city and find themselves sharing this great sighing structure and beginning their lives again from scratch. Together they roister and rankle in a house that begins as a roof over their heads and becomes a home for their hearts. In this fresh, funny novel, full of wonder and dreams, Tim Winton weaves the threads of lifetimes, of twenty years of shouting and fighting, laughing and grafting, into a story about acceptance and belonging. ‘Imagine Neighbours being taken over by the writing team of John Steinbeck and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and you’ll be close to the heart of Winton’s impressive tale’ Time Out

The Riders

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, Scully’s life falls to pieces. The Riders is a superbly written and a darkly haunting story of a lovesick man in a vain search for a vanished woman. It is a powerfully accurate account of marriage today, of the demons that trouble relationships, of resurrection found in the will to keep going, in the refusal to hold on, to stand still. The Riders is also a moving story about the relationship between a loving man and his tough, bright daughter.

Blueback

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.

Dirt Music

Luther Fox, a loner, haunted by his past, makes his living as an illegal fisherman a shamateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, he grew melons and played guitar in the family band. Robbed of all that, he has turned his back on music. There’s too much emotion in it, too much memory and pain. One morning Fox is observed poaching by Georgie Jutland. Chance, or a kind of willed recklessness, has brought Georgie into the life and home of Jim Buckridge, the most prosperous fisherman in the area and a man who loathes poachers, Fox above all. But she’s never fully settled into Jim’s grand house on the water or into the inbred community with its history of violent secrets. After Georgie encounters Fox, her tentative hold on conventional life is severed. Neither of them would call it love, but they can’t stay away from each other no matter how dangerous it is and out on White Point it is very dangerous. Set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, ‘Dirt Music‘ is a love story about people stifled by grief and regret; a novel about the odds of breaking with the past and about the lure of music. Dirt Music, Fox tells Georgie, is ‘anything you can play on a verandah or porch, without electricity.’ Even in the wild, Luther cannot escape it. There is, he discovers, no silence in nature. Ambitious, perfectly calibrated, ‘Dirt Music‘ resonates with suspense and supercharged emotion and it confirms Tim Winton’s status as the preeminent Australian novelist of his generation.

Breath

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 regimen of risk and challenge, where they test themselves in storm swells on remote and shark infested reefs, pushing each other to the edges of endurance, courage, and sanity. But where is all this heading? Why is their mentor s past such forbidden territory? And what can explain his American wife s peculiar behavior? Venturing beyond all limits in relationships, in physical challenge, and in sexual behavior there is a point where oblivion is the only outcome. Full of Winton s lyrical genius for conveying physical sensation, Breath is a rich and atmospheric coming of age tale from one of world literature s finest storytellers.

Down to Earth (With: Richard Woldendorp)

A dazzling collection of extraordinary Australian landscapes from internationally acclaimed photographer, Richard Woldendorp, accompanied by an engaging essay from Tim Winton, examining his personal responses to the land.

Scission

‘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 guarded finally hatch, or in the careless indifference of the woman stepping over a soldier’s spreadeagled body, Tim Winton’s world is a place where dysfunction and disorder constantly threaten the equilibrium. But there is compassion and beauty there too whether it’s in the brush of a father’s hand against his young son’s cheek, or the neighbours who wait patiently to celebrate the arrival of a new baby. ‘Winton is boisterous and lyrical by turns; his sense of sentiment is unerringly accurate, his characters unforgettable. The emotional control exercised over his anarchic world puts Winton in the top drawer of Australian fiction’ ‘Daily Telegraph’. ‘Winton’s compassionate and humorous writing is nothing short of magnificent. If you can imagine Neighbours taken over by the writing team of John Steinbeck and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, you’re close’ ‘Time Out’.

Minimum of Two

‘These stories are a wonderful introduction to his quirky fictional world gutsy, funny, lyrical but unpretentious, with an unerring sense of the transcendent possibilities in ordinary lives’ ‘Independent’. Tim Winton’s second short story collection explores the complexity of human relationships through the themes of futility and hope, revenge and redemption, birth and death that twist through each tale in turn, emerging, re emerging, competing, conflicting. As characters, too, surface and reappear, their lives are slowly, painstakingly revealed. Through frozen moments and stolen glances, their stories and histories are told, their emotions exposed, their souls stripped bare. Threaded together by Tim Winton’s haunting prose, the tales in ‘Minimum of Two‘ ultimately offer an optimistic view of the world in which we live. ‘Winton…
writes with a muscular looseness which is suited perfectly to the people and places he is describing’ ‘The Times’. ‘Tim Winton has cracked something essential about modern Australia: how to find meaning in the intimate and terrible parts of contemporary family life, set against a landscape which is inhumanly vast’ ‘Evening Standard’. ‘The vividness and clarity that Mr Winton responds to in nature are also beautifully embodied in his own writing’ ‘The Economist’.

Blood and Water

Comprises stories from the author’s two earlier collections, ‘Minimum of Two’ and ‘Scission’, as well as previously unpublished material. By the author of ‘Cloudstreet’ and ‘Shallows’.

The Turning

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 are not what they had hoped.

The Bugalugs Bum Thief

What happens when everyone’s bums in the whole town are stolen? And how do you get them back?

The Deep

Alice lives in a house by the sea. Snakes and spiders don’t scare her, but she’s very afraid of The Deep ocean water. Her swimming, splashing, diving family urge her to come out and play with them, but no matter how hard she tries, Alice still can’t leave the green shallows for The Deep. This moving story about a girl besting her fears is matched with warm, light splashed illustrations.

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