Shortlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize, Dirt Music is a captivating novel about the possibility and power of love.
4th September 2025
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Summary
Shortlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize, Dirt Music is a captivating novel about the possibility and power of love.
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Dirt Music by Tim Winton is a novel about the power of love.
‘Compelling’ The Independent
‘Beautiful’ The Sunday Telegraph
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded with a man she doesn’t love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. She spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka and self-recrimination. Until, early one morning, she sees a shadow drifting up the beach below her house. It is Luther Fox, an outcast, a man on the run from his own past. And now here he is stepping into Georgie’s life. He brings hope, maybe even love, but also danger . . .
Awards
Short-listed for Man Booker Prize 2002 (UK)
Critic Reviews
Generous, earthy and raw . . . Mysteries don’t come more heartfelt than this The Independent
Winton keeps writing fiction that makes the novel feel alive to a continent of possibilities Evening Standard
Winton is not a great Australian novelist; he is a great novelist, full stop The Times
Written in seemingly effortless prose that never puts a foot wrong The Sunday Times
A book about the possibility and power of love . . . just pick it up and you’ll be transported The Mail on Sunday
Winton’s writing is a heady blend of muscular description, deep sentiment and metaphysics . . . Dirt Music is a beautiful celebration of his country The Sunday Telegraph
Stunningly written . . . a revelation . . . a magnificent book with themes as enormous as its landscape The Big Issue
About the Author
Tim Winton is widely considered one of the greatest living Australian writers. He has published numerous books, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in Western Australia.
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