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Blueback: Australian Children's Classics by Tim Winton
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Bluebackis an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia's best-loved authors.'Winton ... convince(s) us of the preciousness of our oceans not through lectures but through his characters' steady wonder.' New York Ti ...Show more
Blueback (CD audio) by Tim Winton; Stig Wemyss (Read by)
Category: Audio Books
Abel Jackson's boyhood belongs to a vanishing world. On an idyllic stretch of coast whose waters teem with fish, he lives a simple, tough existence. It's just him and his mother in the house at Longboat Bay, but Abel has friends in the sea, particularly the magnificent old groper he meets when diving.As ...Show more
Blueback (MP3) by Tim Winton; Stig Wemyss (Read by)
Category: Audio Books
Abel Jackson's boyhood belongs to a vanishing world. On an idyllic stretch of coast whose waters teem with fish, he lives a simple, tough existence. It's just him and his mother in the house at Longboat Bay, but Abel has friends in the sea, particularly the magnificent old groper he meets when diving.As ...Show more
Breath by Tim Winton
Category: Fiction
This is a pre-read/used book. Condition: Fair. Jacket cover in good contion. Tanning/foxing on edges of pages. Pen inscription on first page. Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 More than once since then I've wondered whether the life-threatening high jinks that Loonie and I and Sando an ...Show more
Breath by Tim Winton
Category: Fiction
Filled with the lyrical genius that has earned Winton international acclaim and a loyal readership worldwide, Breath is the coming-of-age story of two thrill-seeking boys who surf for danger of all kinds on the untamed coast of Western Australia. As the two boys fall under the thrall of Sando, a veteran ...Show more
Breath: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 by Tim Winton
Category: Audio Books
This aptly titled novel knocks the breath out of the listener as it recounts a youth's daredevil surfing exploits, evoking the fragile balance between life and death. Paramedic Bruce Pike looks back in this coming-of-age story of his thrill-seeking youth in 1970s Australia. He and his friend, Loonie, me ...Show more
Breath: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 by Tim Winton
Category: Fiction
Filled with the lyrical genius that has earned Winton international acclaim and a loyal readership worldwide, Breath is the coming-of-age story of two thrill-seeking boys who surf for danger of all kinds on the untamed coast of Western Australia. As the two boys fall under the thrall of Sando, a veteran ...Show more
Breath: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 - Audio MP3 by Tim Winton
Category: Audio Books
Breath is Tim Winton at his finest: a beautiful, gripping, deeply moving novel about our need for excitement and to push ourselves to the limits; about the power of the sea; and how ordinary people live with tragedy.
Breath: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 - UK EDITION by Tim Winton
Category: Fiction
'Exhilarating' Sunday Times'Rapturous' Sunday Telegraph'A remarkable tale of grace and danger' Financial Times When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than anyone what happened and how. Thirty years before, that dead boy could have been ...Show more
Breath: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 - US EDITION by Tim Winton
Category: Fiction
Breath is Tim Winton at his finest: a beautiful, gripping, deeply moving novel about our need for excitement and to push ourselves to the limits; about the power of the sea; and how ordinary people live with tragedy. When Loonie and Pikelet started to surf, they cycled from Angelus to the beach with th ...Show more
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreetis Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the ...Show more