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An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
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 ...Show more
Blueback by Tim Winton
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
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 ...Show more
Blueback by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
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
Blueback by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Teen
'Winton ... convince s us of the preciousness of our oceans not through lectures but through his characters' steady wonder.' New York TimesAbel 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 an ...Show more
Blueback (Audio CD x 2) by Tim Winton
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category
A beautifully told fable about a young boy's journey from adolescence into adulthood. 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 hi ...Show more
Blueback: Australian Children's Classics by Tim Winton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Bluebackis an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia's best-loved authors.'Winton ... convince(s) us of the preciousness of our oceans not through lectures but through his characters' steady wonder.' New York Ti ...Show more
Breath by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | 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
Breath: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 by Tim Winton
$19.95 AUD
Category: No Category
Bruce Pike can hear the sea at night and longs to go to the shore. When he befriends Loonie, his small town's wild boy, that dream is realized. Together, intoxicated by the treacherous power of the waves and by the immortality of youth, the two boys defy all limits and rules. Pikelet learns what it is t ...Show more
Breath: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 - US EDITION by Tim Winton
$19.95 AUD
Category: No Category
Breath is Tim Winton at his finest: a beautiful, gripping, deeply moving novel about our need for excitement and to push ourselves to the limits; about the power of the sea; and how ordinary people live with tragedy. When Loonie and Pikelet started to surf, they cycled from Angelus to the beach with th ...Show more
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | 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
Cloudstreet: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1992 by Tim Winton
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
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 thei ...Show more
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: 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. Her days have fallen into domestic tedium and social isolation. Her nights are a blur of vodka and pointless l ...Show more