Tim Winton

Bruce Pike tiene once años y vive en un pueblo maderero cerca de la costa salvaje de Australia Occidental. Solitario por naturaleza, aborrece las tranquilas costumbres de su familia, pero todo cambia cuando se hace amigo de Loonie, un chico impulsivo y rebelde con el que empezara a interesarse por la natacion y el buceo y, mas adelante, por el surf. Con el paso a la adolescencia su obsesion por el surf crece, especialmente cuando conocen a Sando, un enigmatico y veterano surfista que les iniciara en un adictivo mundo de desafios cada vez mas peligrosos.Publicada originalmente en 2008, Respira es uno de los clasicos mas apreciados de la literatura australiana reciente, una solida novela de formacion en la que la abrumadora naturaleza del pais permea todo el relato. Una obra que, en su retrato de la amistad durante la adolescencia y los ritos de paso a la edad adulta, explora como pocas la intensidad de las primeras veces y la dificultad de salir a flote y respirar tras haber vivido demasiado deprisa."Una novela de iniciacion a la edad adulta (,) un relato que atrapa y que quita el aliento (,) Respira es la novela mas perfecta y poderosa que ha escrito Winton." Colm Toibin"La profundidad de la audacia narrativa de Winton es asombrosa, La belleza de su pros

Tim Winton is widely acclaimed as one of Australias greatest novelists. Dirt Music, first published in 2001, was an international bestseller. In 2002 it won the Miles Franklin Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.Georgie Jutland is a mess. Her days have fallen into social isolation and her nights are a blur of vodka. One morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she sees a shadow lurking on the beach below, and a dangerous new element enters her life. Luther Fox: local poacher, outcast. So begins an unlikely alliance.In 2012 Picador celebrated its 40th anniversary. During that time we have published many prize-winning and bestselling authors including Bret Easton Ellis and Cormac McCarthy, Alice Sebold and Helen Fielding, Graham Swift and Alan Hollinghurst. Years later, Picador continue to bring readers the very best contemporary fiction, non-fiction and poetry from across the globe.

Bruce Pike can hear the sea at night and longs to go to the shore. When he befriends Loonie, his small town's wild boy, that dream is realized. Together, intoxicated by the treacherous power of the waves and by the immortality of youth, the two boys defy all limits and rules. Pikelet learns what it is to be extraordinary, feels exhilaration for the very first time, and -- caught up in love and friendship and an erotic current he cannot resist -- he understands the true meaning of fear. These are experiences that will far outlast his adolescence. How, then, to mask the emptiness of leaving such intensity behind? 'An absorbing, powerful and deeply beautiful novel' Observer 'A love letter to the sea and a moving coming-of-age story ...Rapturous' Sunday Telegraph 'Breath has the sensibility and reach of an epic' Scotland on Sunday 'Full of fizz and a vital poetry of sun, sand, sea and air' Independent on Sunday 'Breath has the urgent clarity of a story that needed to be told' Guardian

This is the story of lost youth, its attractions, its compulsions, its moments of heartbreak and of madness. Bruce Pike, affectionately known as Pikelet, is irresistibly drawn to the sea. One summer he defies his parents and goes surfing for the first time. This experience is to mark his adolescence with astonishing power, throwing him together with his oddball friend Loonie, and their hero, Sando, whose life by the shore is not without complications. Together they learn what it is to be extraordinary, how to push their bodies and emotions to the limits, and how to live with the emptiness of having left that intensity behind.

Una novel·la de suspens claustrofòbica, on el que amenaça els personatges no és extern, està dins d'ells mateixos; per l'autor australià més important de la seva generació.En una vall aïllada, quatre

Winner of the Australian/Vogel Award for Best First Novel, this is at once a haunting and powerful exploration of the horrors and joys of adulthood.

Juice is an epic adventure a story of survival passion and revenge from twice Booker shortlisted author Tim Winton

That rare thing, not historical fiction, but fiction which brings the history of a place to life Washington Post

Tom Keely has lost his bearings. His reputation in ruins, he finds himself holed up in a flat at the top of a grim high-rise, looking down on the world he's fallen out of love with. He has cut himself off, and intends to keep it that way, until one day he runs into some neighbours: a woman from his past and her introverted young boy. The encounter shakes him up in a way he doesn't understand and, despite himself, Keely lets them in. But the pair come trailing a dangerous past of their own, and Keely is soon immersed in a world that threatens to destroy everything he has learnt to love. Eyrie is a heart-stopping novel written with breath-taking tenderness. Funny, confronting, exhilarating and haunting, it asks how, in an impossibly compromised world, we can ever hope to do the right thing.

Basing their vision on a provocative theory of American history as series of recurring 80- to 100-year cycles, the authors predict that, just after the millennium, America will enter a new era that will culminate with a political and social crisis comparable to the American Revolution, the Civil War, and World War II. "The Fourth Turning" shows how it is not too early--or too late--to prepare for our next rendezvous with destiny.

En un valle aislado, cuatro vidas se ven alteradas por los más profundos temores de la noche.En Sink, un valle solitario, cuatro personas se preparan para pasar la noche. Una sombra parece moverse en el huerto de Murray Jaccob. En el extremo opuesto del pantano, su vecina Ronnie se despide de su amante y siente como su bebe se remueve en su interior. Y en la pequeña parcela ajardinada de los Stubbses, un perro pequeño desaparece, arrancado de cuajo de su correa por una cosa, una presencia que nadie alcanza a ver. Nada volvera a ser igual. Una novela de suspense claustrofobica, donde lo que amenaza a los personajes no es externo, esta dentro de ellos mismos; por el autor australiano mas importante de su generacion.Hay pocos escritores escribiendo tan bien como el. Chicago TribuneUna obra cruda y vibrante que hace saltar por los aires los sentidos. IndependentMisterioso, doloroso y muy bello. Washington Post

Mucho más que una historia de amor, una historia de redención a través del amor.Luther Fox es un hombre solitario, angustiado por su pasado que se gana la vida como pescador ilegal. Antes de la tragedia de la desaparicion de toda su familia, tocaba la guitarra en la banda familiar. Georgie Jutland es una mujer de unos cuarenta años que ha llegado por azar a la vida y al hogar del mas prospero pescador de la zona, Jim Buckridge. El encuentro entre ambos es inevitable, y tambien una historia que ninguno de los dos se atreve a llamar amor. Situada en el extraordinario paisaje del oeste australiano, Musica de la tierra es una preciosa historia de amor entre dos seres ahogados por el daño y la culpa. Una novela sobre el encanto y la capacidad de la musica para curar las heridas del pasado.El descubrimiento de una voz nueva de la poco conocida literatura australiana.Una gran historia de amor y superacion, muy bien escrita y llena de momentos de una emocion verdadera.Personajes masculinos en situaciones extremas, hundidos. personajes femeninos peculiares, pero fuertes.