Island Home
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Tim Winton has published twenty-six books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in Western Australia.
Island Home: A Landscape Memoir is an all-too-brief autobiography by the novelist Tim Winton. He sees Europe with the eyes of an extra-terrestrial, finding nature `impossibly fertile' and the Alps `claustrophobic'. As an unhappy schoolboy in Western Australia, he explored the violent, delicate landscapes which cars have erased, rendering `the outlandish mundane'. Winton's dry, physical descriptions have the opposite effect -- Graham Robb * Spectator * Winton embraces everything that is good, bad and ugly about this continent and his commitment is contagious * Herald Sun * Winton remains one of the finest place-painters in Australian literature -- Jamie Hanson * Guardian (Australia) * A beautiful example of that aesthetic response to the glory and the mystery of nature.' William Yeoman * The West Australian * Like Wordsworth, he understands and feels the "abiding power" of certain places . . . triumphantly personal, quixotic, eccentric, risky, and daring -- Brian Matthews * Australian Book Review * Wonderful . . . Winton's prose nails his country's strange and savage beauty * RTE Guide * Perceptive and persuasive . . . a call to arms for us to appreciate, respect and interact with the natural world around us * Big Issue * A lyrical ode to the power of Oz's wild landscapes. A poetic and enchanting semi-memoir, the author's passion for the rocks and coral seeps into your pores like bush dust * Wanderlust * The two themes that Winton wants to convey - and does so with brilliant success in this small jewel of a book - are the impact of a Western Australian heritage on his life and writing, and the urgent need to conserve Australia's wild places * Times Literary Supplement * In this strikingly well-written book, which blends history, personal memoir, cultural history and environmentalism so deftly that you cannot spot the joins, Winton writes about the extent to which he has been shaped by his country's landscape * National * Partly a love song to Australia and also an attempt to trace how this love affair began * Observer * Exquisite . . . Winton's writing - lyrical yet visceral - seems formed by Western Australia's variety, its sparkling rivers and red deserts as much as its colloquialism . . . Like Seamus Heaney's and Ted Hughes's, Winton's language feels a product of the land and the natural way to celebrate it . . . Read it * Spectator * Vivid . . . eloquent . . . the real pleasures of Island Home lie in the personal memories he summons up with his novelist's skills * Sunday Times * Both a celebration of Australia's wild places and an impassioned argument for their preservation . . . Island Home is a masterclass . . . chief among his influences, [Winton] says, was the novelist Randolph Stow, who was born in Geraldton, Winton's mother's home town . . . He was a writer "who seemed to feel the country of his birth as if he wore it". The same might be said of Winton himself * Telegraph *
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