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The Riders

By: Tim Winton
Narrated by: Stanley McGeagh
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The Riders, the novel that brought Tim Winton his first Booker Prize shortlisting, charts an odyssey across Europe, a transfixing journey through the underworld of every lover's nightmare.

Fred Scully waits at the arrival gate of an international airport, anxious to see his wife and daughter. After two years in Europe, they are finally settling down. He sees a new life before them, a stable outlook again, a fresh start, a cottage in the Irish countryside that he's renovated by hand. He's waited, sweated on this reunion. He does not like to be alone—he's that kind of man.

The flight lands, the doors at the airport hiss open...Scully's life falls apart.

1995, The Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best Book (South East Asia and South Pacific Region), Winner

1995, The Man Booker Prize, Short-listed

1995, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, Short-listed

1994, Australian Book of the Year, Short-listed

1994, Australian Book of the Year, Short-listed

©1994 Tim Winton (P)2022 Bolinda Publishing Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Aviation

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At first I enjoyed the story and narration very much. Then I became annoyed by how stupid and reckless Scully’s behaviour was. Then I realised what the book is about (I think!) and I was very impressed. It’s not easy to read/listen to at times. The narration is excellent. The idea and the story though, so clever and very well told.

Brilliant !

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This book is truly an odyssey with no answers while we get a clear beginning middle and end, I didn’t feel completely satisfied.

An odyssey

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I’m a big fan of Tim winton , but this book was heavily over written. Went on and on . Very disappointed .

Over written

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