A night with Tim Winton

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.

Canberra Writers Festival, in partnership with ANU Meet 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 sun-baked 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.

Duration: 60 minutes