Dirt Music

Winner of the 2002 Miles Franklin Literary Award; the 2002 WA Premier's Award - Book of the Year; the WA Premier's Award for Fiction; the 2002 Christina Stead Award, NSW Premier's Literary Award; the 2001 goodreading Award - Readers Choice Book of the Year; the 2001 Book Data/ABA Book of the Year.

Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Her days have fallen into domestic tedium and social isolation. Her nights are a blur of vodka and pointless loitering in cyberspace. Leached of all confidence, Georgie has lost her way; she barely recognises herself.

One morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she looks up from the computer screen to see a shadow lurking on the beach below, and a dangerous new element enters her life. Luther Fox, the local poacher. Jinx. Outcast...
In prose as haunting and beautiful as its western setting, Dirt Music confirms Tim Winton's status as one of the finest novelists of his generation.

Author Information

Born in Perth in 1960, Tim Winton is the author of thirteen books, including novels, short stories, non-fiction and books for children. He began publishing fiction in his teens and his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the 1981 Australian/Vogel Prize. He has won the Miles Franklin Award three times, for Shallows in 1984, Cloudstreet in 1991, and Dirt Music in 2002 and his other awards include the Banjo Prize, the WA Premier's Prize, the DEO Gloria Award (UK), the Marten Bequest, the Christine Stead Award, the goodreading Award and the Wilderness Society Environment Award. In 1995 The Riders was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Tim Winton has lived in Greece, France and Ireland. He currently lives in Western Australia with his wife and three children.