Tim Winton

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.

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

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

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.

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Un clásico de la literatura australiana. Una profunda meditación sobre la entrada a la edad adulta y las promesas rotas de la adolescenciaBruce 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 que atrapa y que quita el aliento (). La novela mas perfecta y poderosa del autor. Colm ToibinUn himno a la belleza de cabalgar sobre el agua y una sobria reflexion sobre el precio que hay que pagar cuando uno pierde el equilibrio, en todos los sentidos de la palabra. The New YorkerUna novela absorbente, poderosa y profundamente bella (). Una meditacion sobre el surf que se convierte en una meditacion sobre la materia misma de la existencia. Helen Gordon (The Observer)Una obra maestra. Esta destinada a convertirse en un clasico de la literatura australiana que sera disfrutado y admirado por todos sus lectores. Jason Catlett (Time Out Sydney)Una novela de solvente arquitectura formal (...). Winton juega con las posibilidades simbolicas de la respiracion para indagar sobre nuestra atraccion por las sensaciones fuertes como una forma de responder a la pregunta: ¿Eres capaz de hacer algo realmente dificil, o eres simplemente uno mas del monton, un tipo corriente? Marta Rebon (La Lectura / El Mundo)"Respira" siempre avanza. Hacia el peligro. A una ola le sigue otra, cada vez mas lejana y temible, o tan desconocida que muchos ni siquiera saben que existe. La adrenalina quiere mas y afecta a lo cotidiano, convirtiendose en una condena que los jovenes no detectan, ofuscados por los retos, confundiendo los fantasmas de los adultos con algo parecido al valor. Gabi Martinez (El Pais)