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Canberra Writers Festival, in partnership with ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵMeet the Author and Canberra Times, and Penguin Books Australia, are proud to welcome Tim Winton to Canberra to discuss his new novel, JUICE. An epic novel of determination, survival, and the limits of the human spirit. This is Tim Winton as you’ve never read him before.

Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive all night across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. From the vehicle they survey a forsaken place – middens of twisted iron, rusty wire, piles of sunbaked trash. They’re exhausted, traumatised, desperate now. But as a refuge, this is the most promising place they’ve seen. The child peers at the field of desolation. The man thinks to himself, this could work.

Problem is, they’re not alone.

So begins a searing, propulsive journey through a life whose central challenge is not simply a matter of survival, but of how to maintain human decency as everyone around you falls ever further into barbarism.

Join Tim Winton in conversation with Artistic Director Beejay Silcox for an unmissable evening at Llewellyn Hall. Books will be available for purchase on the night courtesy of Harry Hartog.

Duration: 60 minutes

Tim Winton
Tim Winton’s literary career spans 40 years of writing and 29 books for adults and younger readers. His books have been translated into 29 languages and won numerous awards including the Miles Franklin Literary Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). Tim is also the writer, narrator, and executive producer of the nature documentary series Ningaloo Nyinggulu screening around the world in 2023. Tim lives in Western Australia