Works by
Tim Winton
(aka Timothy John Winton)
(Writer)
[1960 - ]

 

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Fiction

Audio

• An Open Swimmer (1982)
  Audio CD

• The Turning (2006)
  Audio CD of Short Stories

Children's Books

• Jesse (1988)

• Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo (1990)
  Thirteen-year-old Lockie, an Australian surfer, is happier riding the waves than he is trying to cope with being popular and in love.  Ages 9 - 12.

• The Bugalugs Bum Thief (1991)
  Audio Cassette, CD.  Ages 9-12

• Lockie Leonard, Legend (1997)

• Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster (1998) with Stephen Kroninger, Illustrator
  Nothing's simple for Lockie Leonard. He's only lived in town for a year and his dad's the local police sergeant, two facts that don't win Lockie any popularity contests. Dumped by his popular girlfriend, he's back to being the loneliest kid in town until he makes friends with Geoff Eggleston, or Egg, the weirdest human being Lockie's ever known. Egg is a dark-haired, pimply-faced, very bright "Metal Head" who can't even swim, though their town is right on the Australian coast. By contrast, Lockie is a trim, blond, expert surfer.
  
  Lockie and Egg decide to somehow clean up the town's harbor, partly covered with scum from industrial waste. In the middle of all their planning, Lockie falls in love again, with a girl who turns out to be only eleven. To make it worse, she surfs better than he does, though he's the best in his school. Can a thirteen-year-old surfrat have a headbanger for a best friend, stay in love with an eleven-year-old gremmie, and still save his town from industrial pollution?

• The Deep (2000) with Karen Louise, Illustrator
  Alice overcomes her fear of deep water when playful dolphins visit her family's beach.

Novels

• An Open Swimmer (1982)
  See also The Collected Shorter Novels of Tim Winton

• Shallows (1986)
  Shallows is set in a small whaling town in Western Australia, where land-based whaling has been a tradition for over 150 years. When Queenie Cookson decides to join an antiwhaling protest group, she defies her husband, her ancestry, and her community. Winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award in Australia, this eloquent and moving novel speaks with immediacy and passion of the conflict between the values of a closeknit, traditional society and the evolving mores of the wider world.

• That Eye, The Sky (1987)
  In this modern Australian classic, award-winning author Tim Winton tells the story of young Ort Flack and his struggle to come to grips with the forces pulling his family apart. An extraordinary snapshot of boyhood, That Eye, the Sky is also a powerful exploration of the nature of hope and faith.
  
  Ort doesn't have a bad life. He mucks around with his best pal, Fat Cherry; he wonders what his sister Tegwyn's so mad about and why his grandma's disappeared inside herself; he looks up at the sky and thinks it's like a big blue eye looking right back at him. But when Dad isn't back from work when he's supposed to be and a strange car pulls into the drive, Ort's life is thrown into turmoil. Suddenly, Mum doesn't seem as strong as she used to, Fat starts saying bad things, and the stranger knocking on the door seems to know an awful lot about the Flacks.

• In the Winter Dark (1989)

• Cloudstreet (1992)
  Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australians and an unflinching examination of the human heart's capacity for sorrow, joy, and endless gradations in between. An award-winning work, Cloudstreet exemplifies the brilliant ability of fiction to captivate and inspire.
  
  Struggling to rebuild their lives after being touched by disaster, the Pickle family, who've inherited a big house called Cloudstreet in a suburb of Perth, take in the God-fearing Lambs as tenants. The Lambs have suffered their own catastrophes, and determined to survive, they open up a grocery on the ground floor. From 1944 to 1964, the shared experiences of the two overpopulated clans -- running the gamut from drunkenness, adultery, and death to resurrection, marriage, and birth -- bond them to each other and to the bustling, haunted house in ways no one could have anticipated.

• The Collected Shorter Novels of Tim Winton (1995)
  An Open Swimmer, That Eye, The Sky, and In the Winter Dark

• The Riders (1995)
  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.

• Blueback: A Contemporary Fable (1998)

• Dirt Music (2002)
  Set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, Dirt Music tells the story of Luther Fox, a broken man who makes his living as an illegal fisherman -- a shamateur. Before 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." Like the beat of a barren heart, nature is never silent. Ambitious and perfectly calibrated, Dirt Music resonates with suspense, emotion, and timeless truths.

• Small Mercies (2006)
  American Version, British Version
  In June, 2006, Picador launch "Picador Shots", a new series of pocket-sized books priced at 1. The Shots aim to promote the short story as well as the work of some Picador's greatest authors. They will be contemporarily packaged but ultimately disposable books that are the ideal literary alternative to a magazine. Tim Winton's "Small Mercies" will be one of the first shots and comes from Tim Winton's latest collection, "The Turning". "Small Mercies" is a beautifully crafted story that is as tender as it is confronting. Pete Dyson is devastated after the suicide of his young wife and desperate to deal with his grief to protect his four-year old son. Realising that the only way to move on is to effectively move back, he returns to his home town and to the ghosts of his past that seem far too ready to haunt him all over again particularly that of his destructive and devastating first love, Fay.

• The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories (1995) selected by Michael Wilding

• The Penguin Century of Australian Short Stories (2001) Carmel Bird, ed.

• Tim Winton: A Celebration (1999), Hilary McPhee, Compiler and editor
  This volume features four fascinating essays about Tim Winton's life and work. The essays range from Helen Garner's evocation of her longstanding friendship with Winton to Martin Flanagan's exploration of Winton's sense of place and belonging to Hilary McPhee's account of her experiences as Winton's former publisher - and they conclude with Michael McGirr's reflection on Winton as a writer. This is an important book about one of Australia's most important authors.