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Light Will Win by Ahmed Al Ahmed
Imprint: Macmillan The inspiring and uplifting memoir of Bondi hero Ahmed Al Ahmed, a story of humanity, hope and courage. On a typical Sydney summer afternoon, families gathered at Bondi Beach to celebrate the Jewish Festival of Lights. Darkness descended when two gunmen opened fire on the crowd. As one of the gunmen advanced on the innocent civilians, Ahmed Al Ahmed surprised and disarmed him. His split-second decision saved countless lives.
This is not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly
Tim Winton Well, there's no getting around it now. What many of us once feared has become a reality. The dangerous conditions climate scientists long warned of have become our common, if deeply unwelcome, experience, and season by season, our acquaintance with disorder and extremities deepens. In both hemispheres, wildfires rage right into our cities and incinerate entire neighbourhoods. Marine heatwaves are bleaching corals and cooking seagrasses on a global scale.
Songs from the Firefront
Skip to main content Imprint: Picador How do we keep going in a burning world? Songs from the Firefront is a vital and moving memoir in essays from Tim Winton, twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Cloudstreet and The Riders. A memoir in essays, Songs from the Firefront is a book about the sacred fragility of existence.
The Shepherd’s Hut
What initially appears to be a bare set is a long sand floor, with a fringed backdrop onto which stunning video images from video designer Roly Skender are projected. An excellent collaboration between costume and set designer Bruce McKinven and lighting designer Lucy Birkinshaw, the setting is not only starkly beautiful but captures the loneliness and isolation of the setting. Teenage runaway, Jaxie Claxton, stumbles upon an isolated property inhabited by banished priest Finton MacGillis.
Ningaloo: Australiens Ozeanwunder
Alle Infos zur Reality-Show „Kampf der RealityAllstars“: Wer ist raus und wer ist noch dabei? Willkommen zurück am Star-Strand! Wer weiterhin in der Sala verweilen darf, und wer leider schon wieder die Koffer packen muss, erfahrt ihr hier.
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Read an extract from Juice by Tim Winton
“On and on we go, hour after hour, over country as black as the night sky, across a fallen heaven starred with eruptions of white ash and smears of milky soot.” Tim Winton’s Juice So I drive until first light and only stop when the plain turns black and there’s nothing between us and the horizon but clinkers and ash. I pull up. Drop the sidescreen. The southern air is mercifully still this morning, and that’s the only stroke of luck we’ve had in days. I know what wind does to an old fireground.
Tim Winton: 'Sometimes I think we use the word dystopia as an opiate'
Tim Winton: “There may be places on our planet where the reality of our burning world can still be overlooked or evaded. Australia is not one of them.” My grandparents were born at the end of the 19th century, in the era of the horse and cart. My mum and dad grew up in the machine age of mass production. And I was a child of the space age.
Our 2025 Christmas Guide
For the third year running, we are back with our sustainability Christmas Guide. Image generated by AI. By Anders Lorenzen For the third year running, we are back to assist you with sustainable choices this holiday season. Owing to the quality of the products, this year’s guide features fresh entries as well as some returning entries from our guides in 2023 and 2024. The products have all been tested, and sustainability has been vetted by A greener life and a greener world.
Tim Winton interview: ‘The world isn’t always what you think it is’
It’s 30 years since The Riders was published in the UK and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. How did that nomination feel back then, and what impact do you think it’s had on your writing career? Well, the book had already been a bestseller in Australia, so it didn’t have a huge impact here at home, but it was certainly useful in the UK. The name recognition of the Booker is second to none in the literary world.
An extract from The Riders by Tim Winton
With the north wind hard at his back, Scully stood in the doorway and sniffed. The cold breeze charged into the house, finding every recess and shadowy hollow. It rattled boards upstairs and lifted scabs of paint from the walls to come back full in his face smelling of mildew, turf, soot, birdshit, Worcestershire sauce and the sealed-up scent of the dead and forgotten. He scraped his muddy boots on the flagstones and closed the door behind him.
Win a copy of The Riders by Tim Winton
To celebrate our Monthly Spotlight for September, The Riders by Tim Winton, we’re offering you the chance to win a copy of the book and a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1995, The Riders depicts a desperate man’s odyssey across Europe in search of the missing wife he now realises he barely knew. The Booker Prize tote bags feature illustrations by artist Iris de Moüy and aren’t available to buy.
Monthly Spotlight: The Riders by Tim Winton
Tim Winton’s 1995 shortlisted novel features a desperate man’s attempts to find his missing wife as he journeys across Europe Tim Winton is an accomplished Australian author and was named a ‘Living Treasure’ by the National Trust of Australia in 1997. He is the author of 13 novels, two of which, The Riders and Dirt Music, were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, in 1995 and 2002 respectively. Winton has won Australia’s most prestigious literary prize – the Miles Franklin Award – four times.
Reading guide: The Riders by Tim Winton
Fred Scully is determined to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. For months he has laboured alone to make their dilapidated cottage habitable, and now his pregnant wife and child are coming to meet him: this will be their fresh start. But when Scully arrives at the airport to collect them, only his seven-year-old daughter Billie steps off the plane, unable to explain what’s happened to her mum.
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
Imprint: Picador Shortlisted for the Booker Prize ‘Compelling’ – The Independent ‘Beautiful’ – The Sunday Telegraph Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded with a man she doesn’t love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. She spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka and self-recrimination. Until, early one morning, she sees a shadow drifting up the beach below her house.
Juice by Tim Winton
One of The Guardian's best sci-fi books of the year. An edge-of-your-seat post-apocalyptic thriller, perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Road, from twice Booker-shortlisted author Tim Winton. 'Will stab your conscience and break your heart’ - Emma Donoghue, author of Room 'A blistering cli-fi epic' - The Guardian Survival is only the beginning. Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site.
Labor must decide what its legacy will be
Will Albo protect Scott Reef or cave to Woodside? A decision looms that could define his legacy — and Australia's climate future, writes David Ritter. FEDERAL ENVIRONMENT MINISTER Senator Murray Watt has proposed to approve the extension of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas processing facility to 2070 — a decision that puts an urgent, immediate choice before the Albanese Government about the legacy it wants to leave.
The Ocean is Calling
by Tim Winton, AO The Ocean is for Everyone Every good story is fuelled by tension – a sense of jeopardy, something big at stake. I’m forced to confront this dynamic every day. But so are you. Because at this moment in history, we all find ourselves living and creating the same shared story, a global tale drenched in jeopardy. And you know exactly why: the life of our oceans – indeed all life on earth – is in danger. We’re in a fight for Life itself, and our planet needs comrades and warriors.
Labor hasn’t delivered on more effective nature laws. It’s not just embarrassing, it’s calamitous
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‘Juice’ by Tim Winton
Fiction – hardcover; Hamish Hamilton; 528 pages; 2024. The juice on Juice is that it’s juicy! But in all seriousness, Tim Winton’s latest novel — his 13th (some of which are reviewed here) — is full of the good stuff. It’s a bit of a departure for him because (1) it’s dystopian, and (2) it’s got a serious message.
Indie Book Awards 2025 shortlists
Bookshops. Like libraries, we just love them. They are places we can find a bit of romance, inspirational stories and even some murderous tales.
Juice by Tim Winton - review by Bartolomeo Sala
Set in a distant future where civilisation as we know it has crumbled, Tim Winton’s new novel takes the form of a post-apocalyptic odyssey. It opens with two fugitives, a man and a girl, driving all night across the desert – a nightmarish vision of the Australian landscape central to Winton’s work – in search of shelter. Exhausted and on the brink of desperation, they reach a mine, which looks like it could be a good resting place.
Tim Winton’s Got the Juice
It is more or less impossible to imagine Australian literature of the past half century without Tim Winton. It was 1981 when his debut novel An Open Swimmer won the Vogel prize. Tim was a 21-year-old creative writing student at Curtin uni, and already in that first book were features that would become stylistic hallmarks: the characters, the perceptive insights into the inner life of a teen boy, the coast and the bush. It’s that last point that perhaps is Winton’s greatest legacy.
If fossil fuel dependency is a global addiction, climate activists are prophets trying to save us from our stupor
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Shelf Reflection: Tim Winton — Kill Your Darlings
Shelf Reflection is our series where we explore the bookshelves and reading habits of some of our favourite authors. In this latest instalment, Tim Winton talks to us about environmental non-fiction, local favourites and his new novel, Juice. Juice is a survival story about two people on the run. How did this story come about? Well, more broadly, it’s a story about the lives people lead in a landscape transformed by climate breakdown.
Book review: Tim Winton’s lengthy post-apocalyptic tale Juice requires patience of its readers
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Book review: Tim Winton’s lengthy post-apocalyptic tale Juice requires patience of its readers
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The AU's Most Anticipated Books of 2024: October
It’s big release season as we get ever closer to the big Christmas haul! As we countdown to the end of the year, the book options in this round up take us all over the world and across time – and beyond! From Greek immigrants in 1940s Western Australia to modern day Argentina, exploring the cutthhroat world of Parisian ballet to the deserts of the American South-West, traversing from fantasy kingdoms to space opera galaxies, and delving into the women behind some of the literary world’s...
Our leaders are collaborating with fossil fuel colonialists
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The best new sci-fi this month featuring an Alan Moore epic and a Blake Crouch reissue
We science fiction fans are going to have our work cut out for us to make it through all the riches on offer this month. There are at least four books published in October that are must-reads for me, including the new Stephen Baxter, an epic story of a future destroyed by climate change from Tim Winton, time travel from Alan Moore and J. Lincoln Fenn’s tale of a creepily mysterious plant on a remote island.
Juice by Tim Winton
‘A masterful story for the ages . . . a book to hold close in the whip of hot wind, to commiserate with, to sing with.
Double lives: ‘My Favourite Cake’ and ‘The Substance’
An Iranian film about a widow defying post-revolution restrictions and finding love, and Demi Moore in a body-horror film aimed at unreal beauty standards “When will they leave us be?” asks Mahin (Lili Farhadpour) in the potent, warm-hearted Iranian film My Favourite Cake (Keyke mahboobe man). She’s referring to the morality police who, during a routine raid in a public park, targeted a woman wearing an improperly worn hijab.
Alan Hollinghurst’s ‘Our Evenings’
The English novelist’s latest dark masterpiece begins with the talented, queer, working-class protagonist invited to his sponsors’ country estate Dave Win, the half-Burmese, working-class protagonist of this delicate new novel by Alan Hollinghurst, starts out in the 1960s as one of very few non-white students at Bampton, a boys’ boarding school in south-east England.
Wall of fame
Vernon Ah Kee’s 100-square-metre bookstore mural celebrates Queensland authors, poets and artists The world is so vast, history so long and the vanished so countless, a person might quail to consider the living. But an artist, a visual artist intent on including himself in the practice of recording the history of the human story, might narrow his focus so that the universal becomes a few living names symbolising the many, and marks upon a surface become strikes against the infinite.
Emotional rescue: ‘Radical Generosity’
Five women artists come together to challenge the traditional art world’s understanding of “emotional” as female Art, of course, is language, but Mithu Sen is unusually mouthy for a visual artist. Part of her exhibition in Melbourne at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) last year was the word “Unacknowledgement”. Beneath that: “I hereby sincerely declare that I will be withdrawing from charades of inclusion and artifices of language through mOTHERTONGUE.” Charades of inclusion?
‘A thousand years ago, five minutes were / Equal to forty ounces of fine sand’
Lines from Nabokov reverberate as the author sees in her young daughter an inherited sense of anticipatory loss “A thousand years ago, five minutes were / Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. / Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and / Infinite aftertime: above your head. / They close like giant wings, and you are dead.” – Nabokov Parenthood caused me to revisit realities about the universe I had come to take for granted.
Collected works: ‘March Studio: Making Architecture, Material & Process’ and ‘AMAG 36’
A monograph and an international magazine highlight small Australian architecture practices innovatively exploring narratives particular to their region When it comes to new buildings, ugliness is almost as immutable as gravity. Today’s designer appears powerless to resist forces exerted by bland software systems and bureaucratic codes, corporate workplaces, mercenary construction contracts and unskilled labour.
Wives and others: ‘Liars’ and ‘If Only’
Current Issue Newsletters Podcasts Login Subscribe October 2024 Arts & Letters Sarah Manguso’s novel about a woman staying in a terrible relationship seems resigned to male dominance, while Vigdis Hjorth’s gets at more complex realities Novel one: Jane is a writer; John, an artist. Jane and John fall in love and get married. What could go wrong? Jane’s writing career begins to take off. Go, Jane! John’s art career… well, it doesn’t, and he redirects his energy towards starting a company.
No worries
The late playwright Jack Hibberd’s ‘Dimboola’ and ‘A Stretch of the Imagination’ offered Australian life through a Beckett lens Jack Hibberd is dead. There’s a knell in that, a suggestion of awe and desolation and mixed feelings. Hibberd had been failing for years – there were cognitive impairments just as years earlier there had been breakdowns – but that doesn’t change the fact that a great spirit is gone.
Feat of clay: ‘Memoir of a Snail’
Current Issue Newsletters Podcasts Login Subscribe October 2024 Arts & Letters Adam Elliot’s latest claymation feature tells the melancholy story of fostered siblings and a lonely life of hoarding Sometimes it feels as though every Australian film is a coming-of-age story.
‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’
The reality TV series following a group of Utah “mom influencers” tending to their brands after a swingers scandal makes for uneven entertainment From Bravo’s delightfully unhinged Real Housewives of Salt Lake City franchise to cheerfully anachronistic “trad wife” influencers, Mormon women have a chokehold on popular culture.
Writer’s loch
‘Stone Yard Devotional’ author Charlotte Wood decompresses on the west coast of Scotland ahead of the Booker Prize announcement When I talk to Charlotte Wood – fresh from the Edinburgh International Book Festival, a side-trip to Ireland and the news of her latest book’s longlisting for the 2024 Booker Prize – she is sojourning at Cove Park, on Scotland’s west coast.
Children of the intervention
Media stories about Alice Springs emphasise lawlessness and dysfunction, but on the ground it is a community let down by successive government failures “They did this, not us!” It’s what Aunty Pat Ansell Dodds tells me in the living room of her small flat on the west side of Alice Springs. She is a gentle woman, 76 years old and grandmother to 12. She’s an accomplished and recognised artist – her work has been projected onto the Sydney Opera House.
Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread
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Change of heart
How the cashless society and bureaucratic management of public spaces have cleared the streets of buskers As I’m walking through the The Rocks Market in Sydney, I find myself thinking that this would be a great place to draw a crowd as a busker. The roads are closed off, the area is full of tourists and there are plenty of patches of pavement for a performer to set up shop. I haven’t worked the streets for nearly 40 years, but you know what they say about old habits.
Additional pleasures
A postcard from the Toronto International Film Festival, where an adaptation of the author’s novel ‘Addition’ is premiered It’s almost like being in my teens again, when the lights dim and a hush falls over the audience. Almost. Back then, I saw two movies every week in a Saturday night double-feature with my best friend, without ever checking the schedule. Curtains opened on either side of the screen with a tinny hum.
On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2024
Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, taking in theatre, visual art, books, dance, festivals and a YouTube miniaturist There’s a reasonable chance that any reflection on Australia’s artistic year in 2024 will inevitably wind up being an assessment of the turmoil facing our cultural institutions. It’s not an exaggeration to say that at times it felt like the local arts scene did more public and private reckoning with grief and anger over Gaza than our political classes.
Park of the covenant
With the Ranger Uranium Mine now closed, Kakadu’s traditional owners want the government to make good on the original promise of a national park in their care In January 2021, the Ranger Uranium Mine, surrounded by Kakadu National Park, finally ceased operations after nearly half a century. To outsiders, Ranger had always seemed like an anomaly: the mine was a deep and unsightly scar in the heart of Australia’s largest terrestrial national park.
Writing in nature
The laureate of the Western Australian surf break sees a task ahead for our essayists, our novelists and our poets alike in the fight against climate catastrophe In his recent book, Eating the Earth, Justyn Walsh, a former investment banker, has said that in economics, as in other human affairs, “pretty much everything is story”. But, he says, “our storytellers-in-chief” are entirely self-serving. Why?
Dog day afternoon
Animal welfare concerns have long plagued the greyhound racing industry, but in Victoria a campaign from covert investigators now has a parliamentarian leading the fight On the first day of August, when an athlete named Graham limped past Victoria’s Parliament House security, he was officially listed as “Speedy Garry”. Born into a culture in which lives are commonly spent locked in cages and yoked to treadmills, Graham bore telltale wounds.
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