Tim Winton

Please note the new venue for this event is Christ Church, Julian Road. If you have booked places we will be in touch very shortly to confirm this. 

Internationally bestselling master storyteller, Tim Winton joins us on a rare visit from his native Australia with a tender and heartbreaking new novel, The Shepherd’s Hut. It tells the brutal story of Jaxie, a boy on the run from his past, and explores the way love and hate combine to form a young man’s beliefs. There’s just one person in the world who understands Jaxie, but to reach her he’ll have to cross the vast saltlands of Western Australia. It is a place that harbours criminals and threatens to kill those who haven’t reckoned with its hot, waterless vastness. This is a journey only a dreamer – or a fugitive – would attempt.

Fierce and lyrical, The Shepherd’s Hut is a story of survival, solitude and unlikely friendship. Tim Winton delivers a raw meditation on masculinity and power, violence and self-restraint, and on forgiveness and kindness as the ultimate acts of love.