For over thirty years, Tim Winton has written novels in which the
natural world is as much a living presence as any character. What is true of
his work is also true of his life: from boyhood, his relationship with the world
around him – rock-pools, sea caves, scrub and swamp - was as vital as any other
connection. Camping in hidden inlets of the south-east, walking in the high
rocky desert fringe, diving at Ningaloo Reef, bobbing in the sea between sets,
Winton has felt the place seep into him, with its rhythms, its dangers, its
strange sustenance, and learned to see landscape as a living process.
Island Home is the story of how that relationship with
the Australian landscape came to be, and how it has deter-mined his ideas, his
writing and his life. It is also a passionate exhortation for all of us to feel
the ground beneath our feet. Much more powerfully than a political idea, or an
economy, Australia
is a physical entity. Where we are defines who we are, in ways we too often
forget to our detriment, and the country’s.
Release date: 23rd
September, we will take orders.
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