Land's Edge

Despite our outback mythology, Australians are coastal people and it’s hard to think of a more thoroughly coastal writer than Tim Winton. In his novels for adults and children the sea is always luminously present. The beach is Winton territory.

Land’s Edge is Tim Winton’s record of his obsession with the margin between the desert and the sea, a memoir of a coastal boyhood and a celebration of the last wild places we still cherish.

“The most extended and lyrical celebration of the beach in Australian writing.” – Andrew Taylor, Australian Literary Studies.