Tim Winton: ‘I lived in the worst possible space for seven years. It knocks some paint off you, I can tell you’
After years of wrestling with difficult subject matter in secrecy, the Australian novelist talks about the grim future he has imagined for his latest novel, and how it can be avoided
September 2024
Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread
Tim Winton
The lassitude that distinguishes our moment is born of sorrow and buried rage. We act like colonial subjects because, in effect, that’s what we are
May 2023
Tim Winton on waiting for the wonder of coral spawn: ‘Honestly, come night number six, I’m over it’
From freediving at night to eating raw shrimp straight from the sea, the author catalogues the tribulations – and magic – of watching the annual regeneration of Ningaloo Reef
February 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 books about castaways
From the dark visions in Lord of the Flies or The Beach to the gentle wit of Tove Jansson, author Lucy Clarke picks her favourites tales of survival and isolation
October 2020
Dirt Music review – Tim Winton adaptation falls flat despite cinematic dreams
The film-makers have shot for profundity and lyricism to match the Australian classic, but ended up with something flavourless – and occasionally cloying
March 2020
Top 10s
Top 10 mentors in fiction
From Homer to Hilary Mantel, these inspiring, sometimes ambiguous figures are a perennial flint-spark for storytelling
November 2019
Kevin Rudd, Thomas Keneally, Wendy Harmer, Tim Winton and others on their birds of the year
From the punks of the bird world and a living fossil to a rabbit-killing raptor, Australia’s birds have attitude
May 2019
Cloudstreet review – play is big on spectacle but can't solve the problems of Tim Winton's novel
Cloudstreet on stage: a new way of listening to the ghosts that live alongside us
April 2019
The frontline: Australia and the climate emergency
Our leaders are ignoring global warming to the point of criminal negligence. It's unforgivable
Tim Winton
Humanity survived the cold war because no one pushed the button. On climate change, the button has been pushed again and again
January 2019
Australia's best beaches
From Storm Boy to Breath: the 10 best Australian beach films
Australia's best beaches
Summer beach reads: 10 Australian books set by the sea
October 2018
I'm face to face with Ningaloo's living miracles and it feels holy
Exmouth split over pipeline factory proposed for gulf that supports Ningaloo Reef
July 2018
Top 10s
Top 10 tales from the frontier
Tim Winton, Helen Garner, Paul Keating, Deng Adut: the stories behind the year's best biographies
Tim Winton, Joan Healy, Bernadette Brennan , Deng Thiak Adut, Judith Brett, Troy Bramston
June 2018
Book of the day
The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton review – an Australian odyssey
A boy on the run meets a disgraced priest as the big themes of faith and salvation are explored amid the visionary splendour of the burning saltflats
Tim Winton: 'Being called a misogynist stings a bit'
The novelist, who has faced criticism for his male focus, is braving the #MeToo moment with a new book and by speaking out about toxic masculinity
In brief: The Shepherd’s Hut; Radical Help; Dunbar – reviews
Tim Winton unpicks masculinity in the outback, the failing welfare state is taken to task, while King Lear is recast as a media magnate
May 2018
‘I got a bit terrified’: Simon Baker on filming Tim Winton’s Breath
Debut director on his fear of adapting this Australian paean to surfing and the challenge posed by its most taboo subject: erotic asphyxiation
