The Riders

Author(s): Tim Winton

Australian

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 wife and child are coming to meet him: this will be their fresh start. But when he arrives at the airport to collect them, only his small daughter steps off the plane . . . So begins Tim Winton's The Riders. This is Scully's desperate journey across Europe, trying to track down the wife he comes to realize he didn't know.


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'Vivid and rewarding... Encompasses and transcends all the known world.' - Thomas Keneally

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. Find out more on Facebook

General Fields

  • : 9780143568803
  • : PENGUIN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
  • : PENGUIN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
  • : 0.296
  • : January 2013
  • : 199mm X 129mm X 24mm
  • : January 2013
  • : books

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  • : Tim Winton
  • : Paperback
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  • : en
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