Reviews
- Big dreams
"Readers familiar with Tim Winton's 2002 Booker-shortlisted novel, Dirt Music, will immediately recognise the setting of this remarkable collection of interlinked short stories. This is Winton's home territory - small-town Western Australia, simmering in the stink of rotting kelp or shrouded in drizzle driven across beaches "the colour of dirty tin" ... " - Andrew Denton : Enough Rope
"Tim Winton is consistently voted Australia's most beloved novelist. In books such as Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and his new collection of short stories, The Turning, he's shown an exquisite feel for the language, the smell, the very pulse of Australia. It's never easy to coax him away from the shores of WA, the source of so much of his inspiration, and we're delighted to have done so tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, Tim Winton ... "
