Boffins Books, together with The City of Perth Library presents a special breakfast event with author Tim Winton as he speaks with Gillian O'Shaughnessy, presenter of 720 ABC Perth Afternoons, about his new book The Boy Behind The Curtain.
Join us for a rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play as the Miles Franklin Award winning author reveals the real characters and events behind his bestselling novels in this intimate discussion ranging across his boyhood, movies and road-trips, family and faith to the natural world, art and writing.
Tickets are $45 each, which include breakfast, or beat the line and pre-order your book for pickup on the day, plus breakfast for $79.
Corporate Tables are available at a discounted price of $750 for ten places, which includes breakfast and a book for each place.
Can't make it? We'll happily have a copy of Tim Winton's The Boy Behind the Curtain signed for you. Simply contact us via phone, email, online or visit us in-store, and we'll take care of the rest.
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The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton, published by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Random House on Monday 3 October 2016, rrp $45.00.
The remarkable true stories of The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton's imagination at work and play.
A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been in the business of trouble. In his novels chaos waits in the wings and ordinary people are ambushed by events and emotions beyond their control. But as these extraordinarily powerful memoirs show, the abrupt and the headlong are old familiars to the author himself, for in many ways his has been a life shaped by havoc.
In The Boy Behind the Curtain Winton reflects on the accidents, traumatic and serendipitous, that have influenced his view of life and fuelled his distinctive artistic vision. On the unexpected links between car crashes and religious faith, between surfing and writing, and how going to the wrong movie at the age of eight opened him up to a life of the imagination. And in essays on class, fundamentalism, asylum seekers, guns and the natural world he reveals not only the incidents and concerns that have made him the much-loved writer he is, but some of what unites the life and the work.
By turns impassioned, funny, joyous, astonishing, this is Winton's most personal book to date, an insight into the man who's held us enthralled for three decades and helped us reshape our view of ourselves. Behind it all, from risk-taking youth to surprise-averse middle age, has been the crazy punt of staking everything on becoming a writer.
Tim Winton is one of the Australia’s most acclaimed writers, thinkers and essayists. He is the author of 28 books and three plays. His non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Monthly, The New Statesman, Prospect, The Los Angeles Times, The London Review of Books and The Economist/Intelligent Life. 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).
