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Tim Winton has published over twenty books for adults and children, 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). Active in the environmental movement, he is the Patron of the Australian Marine Conservation Society. He lives in Western Australia.âAlways a writer of crystalline prose, his lines of sinewy leanness achieve such clarity here that it seems one is reading line after line of perfect music . . . To read Winton is to be reminded not just of the possibilities of fiction but of the human heartâ <i>The Times </i>
âThe laureate of Western Australia is back . . . this is like Carver, happily with a very large dose of Wintonâ <i>Time Out </i>
'These stories are threaded through with subtleties and oblique connections; to be fully appreciated, they need to be read more than once. But Winton's writing â vigorous, vivid, precise â is so good that you'd want to do that anywayâ <i>Sunday Times</i>
âSublime. Winton is a great writerâ <i>Daily Mail</i>
âVivid, elegiac and humorous . . . and told in a relaxed prose that frequently strikes sparksâ <i>Daily Telegraph</i>
âWinton is marvellous at locating the small moment of crisis. His prose is leavened throughout by a kind of poetry . . . so exquisitely written, so precise in its construction, that it is a joy to readâ <i>Sunday Telegraph</i>
âWinton is a poet of baffled souls . . . Always a writer of crystalline prose, his lines of sinewy leanness achieve such clarity here that it seems one is reading line after line of perfect music. His unbounded humanity and his sympathy for his characters descend on them like grace as they struggle to salvage their livesâ <i>The Times</i>