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Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton’s masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australians and an unflinching examination of the human heart’s capacity for sorrow, joy, and endless gradations in between. An award-winning work, Clo… more

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 on… more

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… more

This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

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… more

Award-winning novel by Kirsty Eagar, author of Saltwater Vampires and Night Beach. Raw Blue was awarded the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Young Adult Fiction prize. Readers of Tim Winton’s Breath will be drawn to Kirsty Eagar’s R… more

In this modern Australian classic, award-winning author Tim Winton tells the story of young Ort Flack and his struggle to come to grips with the forces pulling his family apart. An extraordinary snapshot of boyhood, That Eye, the Sky is als… more

For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing – there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best 200 novels written since 1950, the editor… more