Tim Winton
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
"Luther Fox, a loner, haunted by his past, makes his living as an illegal fisherman - a shamateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, he grew melons and played guitar in the family band. Robbed of all that, he has turned his back on music. There's too much emotion in it, too much memory and pain." "One morning Fox is observed by Georgie Jutland. Chance, or a kind of willed recklessness, has brought Georgie into the life...
3) Eyrie
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Struggling to rebuild in the wake of a scandal, a once-ambitious environmentalist is rescued from desperation by a woman from his past and her preternatural child.
4) Cloudstreet
Author
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
From award-winning author Tim Winton comes an epic novel that regularly tops the list of best-loved novels in Australia.
After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are industrious, united, and-until God seems to turn His back on their boy Fish-religious. The Pickleses are gamblers, boozers, fractious, and unlikely landlords.
Change, hardship, and the war force them to...
6) Dirt music
Pub. Date
2020
Description
The fervent attraction between Georgie, a woman stuck in a loveless relationship, and Lu, a musician with a tragic past, gets the better of them when secrets are uncovered that will change their lives.
7) Cloudstreet
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Set around Perth from 1943-63, two families, each scarred by catastrophe, find a home for their hearts in this acclaimed Australian miniseries. The Lambs are hardworking and God-fearing, the Pickles are luckless and derelict, yet they find common ground beneath the same roof.