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Island Home by Tim Winton
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
I grew up on the world's largest island.' This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful, evocative and sometimes provocative memoir of how this unique landscape has shaped him and his writing. For over thirty years, Winton has written novels in which the natural world is a ...Show more
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
26.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
On childhood holidays to the beach, the sun and surf kept Tim Winton outside in the mornings, in the water; the wind would drive him indoors in the afternoons, to books and reading. This ebb and flow of the day became a way of life.In this beautifully delicate memoir, Winton writes about his obsession w ...Show more
Lockie Leonard Human Torpedo (#1) by Tim Winton
23.00 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction | Series: Lockie Leonard Ser. | Reading Level: 13+
Lockie Leonard, hot surf-rat, is in love. The human torpedo is barely settled into his new school, and already he's got a girl on his mind. And not just any girl- it has to be Vicki Streeton, the smartest, prettiest, richest girl in class.What chance have you got when your dad's a cop, your mum's a frig ...Show more
Lockie Leonard: Legend by Tim Winton
23.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Lockie Leonard
Lockie's survived his first year of high school, settling into a new town and his first mad love affair - it's all behind him; he made it! Sadly, the world of weirdness hasn't finished with him yet. His little brother's hormones have kicked in, his baby sister refuses to walk or talk - but eats anything ...Show more
Scumbuster (Lockie Leonard #2) by Tim Winton
23.00 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction | Series: Lockie Leonard
There's nothing straightforward in Lockie Leonard's life right now. Dumped by his girlfriend, he's back to being the loneliest kid in town until, that is, he meets Egg - who turns out to be the weirdest human being he's ever met. On top of all that, Lockie decides to save the planet; at least the bit of ...Show more
Shallows by Tim Winton
30.00 NZD
Category: General 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
That Eye, The Sky by Tim Winton
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Ort knows the sky is watching. He knows what it means to watch; he spends long hours listening at doors and peering through cracks. Things are terribly wrong. His father is withering away, his sister is consumed by hatred, his grandmother is all inside herself, and his mother, a flower-child of the 1960 ...Show more
The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton
30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction General
'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 Deep by Tim Winton
18.99 NZD
Category: General Picture Books
Alice's family lives by the sea. Every day they run down to the jetty and jump into the smooth, dark water. They look like a bunch of dolphins leaping and laughing. But Alice misses out. She's afraid of the deep. She's afraid of what might be down there where the water turns from green to blue and you c ...Show more
The Riders by Tim Winton
30.00 NZD
Category: General 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
45.00 NZD
Category: General 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 Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
26.00 NZD
Category: General 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