A gift of an essay that illuminates the literary talents of two of Australia’s greatest writers


In this beautifully written personal essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks offers readers brilliant insights into the work of one of Australia’s greatest living writers, Tim Winton.

In the Writers on Writers series, leading authors reflect on an Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative and crisp, these books start a fresh conversation between past and present, shed new light on the craft of writing, and introduce some intriguing and talented authors and their work.

Published by Black Inc. in association with the University of Melbourne and State Library Victoria.

Geraldine Brooks is a journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel, March, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of Nine Parts of Desire, Year of Wonders and People of the Book, among others. Her most recent novel is Horse.