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The enchanting memoirs from one of Australia's greatest novelists.
Tim Winton is the acclaimed and award-winning Australian author of
more than 30 books for adults and children, including two Booker
Prize–shortlisted novels Dirt Music and The Riders. His work has
been translated into more than 24 languages and adapted for film,
television, stage and radio. He has won the Miles Franklin Award a
record four times: for Shallows (1984), Cloudstreet (1992), Dirt
Music (2002) and Breath (2009). The Turning also won the 2005
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction while Cloudstreet regularly
appears in lists of Australia's best-loved novels. His latest novel
is Juice (2024).
Winton has been named as a National Living Treasure by the
Australian National Trust and awarded the Centenary Medal by the
Australian government for services to literature and the community.
Winton was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia in the
2023 King's Birthday Honours for ‘distinguished service to
literature as an author and novelist, to conservation, and to
environmental advocacy’.
Winton is patron of the Tim Winton Award for Young Writers
sponsored by the City of Subiaco, Western Australia and is the
patron of two environmental advocacy organisations: the Australian
Marine Conservation Society and the Stop the Toad Foundation. He
lives in Western Australia. David has been narrating audiobooks for
over 25 years, working on a number of award-winning titles. He has
also worked extensively in theatre, radio, film and television,
most notably appearing in all four seasons of The Secret Life of
Us. When not lending his voice to books he is employed as an
archivist, audio producer and librarian.
'Winton's homage to the ocean and his childhood... A book to return
to again and again.'
*The Sun Herald*
'A love letter to the beach, an enchanting celebration of life on
the edge.'
*Sydney Morning Herald*
'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.'
*The Age*
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