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An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton
Category: Fiction
Jerra and his best mate Sean set off in a beaten-up old VW to go camping on the coast. Jerra's friends and family want to know when he will finish university, when he will find a girl. But they don't understand about Sean's mother, Jewel, or the bush or the fish with the pearl. They think he needs a job ...Show more
An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton; Humphrey Bower (Read by)
Category: Audio
An Open Swimmeris a remarkable first novel by one of Australia's most loved and respected writers, Tim Winton. Jerra and his best mate Sean set off in a beaten-up old VW to go camping on the coast. Jerra's friends and family want to know when he will finish university, when he will find a girl. But th ...Show more
Blueback by Tim Winton
Category: Fiction
'Winton ... convince s us of the preciousness of our oceans not through lectures but through his characters' steady wonder.' New York TimesAbel 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 an ...Show more
Blueback by Tim Winton
Category: Fiction
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. A ...Show more
Blueback by Stig Wemyss (Read by); Tim Winton
Category: Audio
Abel Jackson loves to dive. He's a natural in the water. He can't remember a time when he couldn't use a mask and snorkel to glide down into the clear deep. Life is tough out at Longboat Bay. Every day the boy helps his mother earn their living from the sea and the land. It's hard work but Abel has the ...Show more
Blueback by Tim Winton
Category: Children's Fiction
Abel Jackson has lived by the sea at Longboat Bay ever since he could remember. He helps his mother each day and loves to dive. One day he meets Blueback, the biggest and most beautiful fish he's ever seen.When Abel's mother is approached by developers she decides she must do something to protect their ...Show more
Blueback (Audio CD x 2) by Tim Winton
Category: Audio
A beautifully told fable about a young boy's journey from adolescence into adulthood. Abel Jackson loves to dive. He's a natural in the water. He can't remember a time when he couldn't use a mask and snorkel to glide down into the clear deep. Life is tough out at Longboat Bay. Every day the boy helps hi ...Show more
Blueback (Audio MP3 CD) by WINTON TIM
Category: Audio
Abel Jackson loves to dive. He's a natural in the water. He can't remember a time when he couldn't use a mask and snorkel to glide down into the clear deep. Life is tough out at Longboat Bay. Every day the boy helps his mother earn their living from the sea and the land. It's hard work but Abel has the ...Show more
Blueback: Australian Children's Classics by Tim Winton
Category: Children's 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 (MP3) by Tim Winton; Stig Wemyss (Read by)
Category: Audio
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
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
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