Dirt Music

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Dirt Music by Tim Winton is a novel about the power of love. ''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. It is Luther Fox, an outcast, a man on the run from his own past. And now here he is stepping into Georgie''s life. He brings hope, maybe even love, but also danger . . .

About the author

Tim Winton is widely considered one of the greatest living Australian writers. 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). In 2023 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to literature as an author and novelist, to conservation, and to environmental advocacy. He lives in Western Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Winton
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.09.2025
• EAN: 9781035063819
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3506381-9
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 31 mm
• Series: Collection; Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Western Australia, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Sea Stories, Indian Ocean, Fishing, angling