{"title":"Tim Winton","description":"Tim Winton is widely considered one of the greatest living Australian writers. He has published numerous books, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian\/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music,  and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in Western Australia.","products":[{"product_id":"breath-paperback","title":"Breath - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow a major motion picture, starring Simon Baker, Elizabeth Debicki, and Richard Roxburgh.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBreath\u003c\/i\u003e, by renowned Australian author Tim Winton, is a story of risk, of learning one's limits by challenging death. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the wild, lonely coast of Western Australia, two thrill-seeking teenage boys fall under the spell of a veteran big-wave surfer named Sando. Their mentor urges them into a regiment of danger and challenge, and the boys test themselves and each other on storm swells and over shark-haunted reefs. The boys give no thought to what they could lose, or to the demons that drive their mentor on into ever-greater danger. Venturing beyond all caution--in sports, relationships, and sex--each character approaches a point from which none of them will return undamaged.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369616081119,"sku":"9780312428396","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/i-294wPc9W9780312428396.webp?v=1789143485"},{"product_id":"dirt-music-paperback","title":"Dirt Music - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Winner of The Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Christina Stead Award, WA Premier's Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eSet in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, \u003ci\u003eDirt Music\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Luther Fox, a broken man who makes his living as an illegal fisherman--a shamateur.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, Fox grew melons and counted stars and loved playing his guitar. Now, his life has become a \"project of forgetting.\" Not until he meets Georgie Jutland, the wife of White Point's most prosperous fisherman, does Fox begin to dream again and hear the dirt music--\"anything you can play on a verandah or porch,\" he tells Georgie, \"without electricity.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike the beat of a barren heart, nature is never silent. Ambitious and perfectly calibrated, \u003ci\u003eDirt Music\u003c\/i\u003e resonates with suspense, emotion, and timeless truths.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51370049437919,"sku":"9780743228480","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/JkQ_JkqUnF9780743228480.webp?v=1789150255"},{"product_id":"riders-paperback","title":"Riders - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn exploration of marriage and the rich relationship that can exist between father and daughter, The Riders is a gorgeously wrought novel from the award-winning author Tim Winton.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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51370113990879,"sku":"9780684822778","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Iixk-HE_se9780684822778.webp?v=1789150406"},{"product_id":"the-shepherds-hut-paperback","title":"The Shepherd's Hut - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Tim Winton, Australia's most decorated and beloved novelist and the author of \u003ci\u003eCloudstreet\u003c\/i\u003e, comes \u003ci\u003eThe Shepherd's Hut\u003c\/i\u003e, the story of a young man on a thrilling journey of self-discovery in one of the harshest, near-uninhabitable climates on Earth. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record four Miles Franklin Literary Awards for Best Australian Novel, he has a gift for language virtually unrivaled among writers in English. His work is both tough and tender, primordial and new--always revealing the raw, instinctual drives that lure us together and rend us apart. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Shepherd's Hut\u003c\/i\u003e, Winton crafts the story of Jaxie Clackton, a brutalized rural youth who flees from the scene of his father's violent death and strikes out for the vast wilds of Western Australia. All he carries with him is a rifle and a waterjug. All he wants is peace and freedom. But surviving in the harsh saltlands alone is a savage business. And once he discovers he's not alone out there, all Jaxie's plans go awry. He meets a fellow exile, the ruined priest Fintan MacGillis, a man he's never certain he can trust, but on whom his life will soon depend. \u003ci\u003eThe Shepherd's Hut\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling tale of unlikely friendship and yearning, at once brutal and lyrical, from one of our finest storytellers.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51370232414431,"sku":"9781250215048","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/e9NJ2sYoK9781250215048.webp?v=1789153690"},{"product_id":"cloudstreet-paperback","title":"Cloudstreet - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning author Tim Winton comes an epic novel that regularly tops the list of best-loved novels in Australia. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are industrious, united, and--until God seems to turn His back on their boy Fish--religious. The Pickleses are gamblers, boozers, fractious, and unlikely landlords. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChange, hardship, and the war force them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering house called Cloudstreet. Over the next twenty years, they struggle and strive, laugh and curse, come apart and pull together under the same roof, and try as they can to make their lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognized as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, \u003ci\u003eCloudstreet\u003c\/i\u003e is Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51370240737503,"sku":"9781250035516","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/LU5Z96_HK9781250035516.webp?v=1789153711"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/tim-winton.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}