Island Home: A Landscape Memoir

By Tim Winton

'I grew up on the world's largest island.'

From his childhood, Tim Winton's relationship with the landscape around him – Australia's swamps and bush, rockpools, seacaves and scrub – has been as vital as any other connection. Whether camping in hidden inlets, walking in the high rocky desert fringe, or diving at Ningaloo Reef, Winton has felt the place seep into him – its rhythms, its dangers, its strange sustenance.

Island Home is the story of how that relationship with the landscape came to be. Charged with love for the huge, besieging force of Australia's wild spaces, this book is a passionate call for their conservation, a memoir that urges us all to feel the ground beneath our feet.

Tim Winton's Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir, is also available.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Release date: May 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781509816934

Tim Winton

Tim Winton grew up on the coast of Western Australia, where he continues to live. He is the author of eighteen books. His epic novel Cloudstreet was adapted for the theater and has been performed around the world. His two most recent novels, Dirt Music and The Riders, were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has won the prestigious Miles Franklin Award three times, and in 1998 the Australian National Trust declared Winton a national living treasure. The Turning has already won the 2005 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.

Reviews for Island Home

[zmagic69 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I really enjoy this author. This memoir of sorts explains why the author is the way he is, but it also does a good Job of explaining the need for Australians to travel, and the restlessness so many of them seem to have.

[gayward · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This extremely well written book brings the West Australian landscape alive and is a wonderful example of how we are part of our landscape and need to embrace this experience. It is like a series of place-based vignettes where the landscape contributes to the understanding of historical and social issues in each chapter.

[kenno82 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

 A meditation on Australia, the coast and its unique environment... perhaps I expected a little bit more - but only because Winton is one of my favourites.