Awards
- Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award 2016
Overview
A wise, passionate and compelling investigation into how our landscape makes us who we are.
Full Product Details
Author: Tim Winton ,
David Tredinnick ,
Jed Goodluck
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing
Imprint: Bolinda Audio Books
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9781489027955
ISBN 10: 1489027955
Publication Date: 01 November 2015
Audience:
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
'Winton's love letter to the vast island continent which has spawned all he has written ... He gives praise to its grandeur in words as John Olsen and Emily Kngwarreye have done in paint ... Winton's Australia is teeming and brimming and shrieking and squawking with life.' -- Sydney Morning Herald 'Tim Winton's Island Home isn't memoir, it's a cultural call to arms ... Winton remains one of the finest place-painters in Australian literature.' -- The Guardian 'Island Home is thus part political manifesto that presents a profound challenge to traditional rural conservatism as well as to the right in general. Conservatives say they love their country. Winton lays bare how very destructive of it some of their actions have been.' -- The Monthly
Author Information
Tim Winton is the acclaimed and award-winning Australian author of more than 30 books for adults and children, including two Booker Prize–shortlisted novels Dirt Music and The Riders. His work has been translated into more than 24 languages and adapted for film, television, stage and radio. He has won the Miles Franklin Award a record four times: for Shallows (1984), Cloudstreet (1992), Dirt Music (2002) and Breath (2009). The Turning also won the 2005 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction while Cloudstreet regularly appears in lists of Australia's best-loved novels. His latest novel is Juice (2024). Winton has been named as a National Living Treasure by the Australian National Trust and awarded the Centenary Medal by the Australian government for services to literature and the community. Winton was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours for ‘distinguished service to literature as an author and novelist, to conservation, and to environmental advocacy’. Winton is patron of the Tim Winton Award for Young Writers sponsored by the City of Subiaco, Western Australia and is the patron of two environmental advocacy organisations: the Australian Marine Conservation Society and the Stop the Toad Foundation. He lives in Western Australia. David has been narrating audiobooks for over 25 years, working on a number of award-winning titles. He has also worked extensively in theatre, radio, film and television, most notably appearing in all four seasons of The Secret Life of Us. When not lending his voice to books he is employed as an archivist, audio producer and librarian.
