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Scission and Other Stories - new jacket by Tim Winton
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In these spare, piercing stories, people struggle with change and disintegration. Their lives fragment, their hearts break, the world deceives. Tim Winton's first collection of short fiction shows him marking out the territory he came to stamp as his own: the gritty courage demanded by the everyday, the ...Show more
Shallows by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
No.1 Australian Bestseller.Author Published Internationally. Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passinig defines the rythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begin ...Show more
Shallows: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1984 by Tim Winton
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Shallows: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1984 - new jacket by Tim Winton
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, in Western Australia. Their annual passing defines the rhythms of life, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begins on the beaches outside their town, and when Queenie Cookson, a local girl, joins the Greenies, it can only throw e ...Show more
The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
'Being a copper?s son, I?ve always got one eye out for trouble. I can?t help it. But I don?t go looking for it anymore.?In Tim Winton?s fiction, chaos shapes the lives of his characters. So too Winton?s own life. The extraordinarily powerful true stories that make up The Boy Behind the Curtaintake us be ...Show more
The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardcover) by Tim Winton
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
'Eclectic and impassioned, a collection that affirms the power of the written word' ObserverThe Boy Behind the Curtain is a portrait of a life, a place and a man. In this deeply personal collection of true stories and essays Tim Winton shows how moments from his childhood and life growing up have shaped ...Show more
The Riders by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Fred Scully waits at the arrival gate of an international airport, anxious to see his wife and daughter. After two years in Europe they are finally settling down. He sees a new life before them, a stable outlook again, a fresh start, a cottage in the Irish countryside that he's renovated by hand. He's w ...Show more
The Riders by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Fred Scully is determined to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. For months he has laboured alone to make their dilapidated cottage habitable, and now his wife and child are coming to meet him: this will be their fresh start. But when he arrives at the airport to collect them, ...Show more
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
In one terrible moment Jaxie Clackton's life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. There's just one person left in the world who understands him and what he still dares to hope for. But to reach her he'll have to cross the vast saltlands on a trek that only ...Show more
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
$45.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jaxie dreads going home. His mum?s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. But no one's ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. In one terrible moment his life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. Ther ...Show more
The Turning by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of Dirt Music comes an outstanding work of fiction that will resonate with readers everywhere.Here are turnings of all kinds changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, sudden detours where people struggle against the terrible weight of t ...Show more