Shepherd’s Hut

It may be that this is his best book yet . . . triumphantly good . . . blisteringly original
The Times

A page-turning heartbreaker
Emma Donoghue, author of Room

Outstanding . . . compulsively suspenseful . . . dazzlingly good
Sunday Times – Peter Kemp

Exhilarating, compelling . . . elegiac, transcendent
Guardian

Wonderful. Brutal, agonizing, tender
Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a Rabbit and Tin Man

Raw, brutal and merciless . . . Holden Caulfield, you have been eclipsed
Spectator

Remarkable . . . astonishing . . . extraordinary . . . Winton has written a novel which – and I can have no higher praise – I wish to re-read . . . it is clever, canny and complex
Scotland on Sunday

Winton’s novel is layered, lyrical and intense . . . unforgettable . . . heartstopping
Mail on Sunday

A transfixing performance
Philip Hensher, Books of the Year, Spectator

Layered, lyrical and thrilling
Daily Mail

A master novelist at the very peak of their craft. Full of heart and life and beauty
Evie Wyld, author of All The Birds, Singing

A novel that reminds us what fiction can do. Here is a voice that digs into your viscera and changes you from the inside
Ross Raisin, author of God’s Own Country

Searing, ardent and deeply empathetic . . . Jaxie Clackton, plangent and profane, is destined to become one of the greatest characters in Australian literature
Geraldine Brooks, author of Year of Wonders

Superb. It's rare to feel fury and hope on the surface of the skin at the same time, and more rare to find that convincing in a story
Cynan Jones, author of Cove

A fierce, pungent, slangy, humdinger of a book, with a real kick in the tail. Fiction doesn't get much better than this
Rupert Thomson, author of Divided Kingdom

Landscape and destiny are inextricable in Tim Winton’s latest novel, and the result is a gritty realism that ultimately propels the story into the timelessness of a parable. All that I love about Winton’s work is here: the poetry of the colloquial, fully realized characters, and the fearlessness to enter the deepest mysteries of being. The Shepherd’s Hut is a brilliant reminder that Winton is one of the world’s great living novelists.
Ron Rash, author of Serena

Winton is, as always, a superb painter of Australian space. He takes this drear landscape and invests it with what can only be described as majesty . . . Winton's achievement in these pages is of a piece with his larger fictional project. He seeks to re-enchant the world, and to provide, via the essentially sceptical machinery of literature, a sense of secular communion. A novel is not a church, and Winton is not a preacher. But he is a voice of sanity and his art is tuned to the possibility of care, even grace
Australian

Tim Winton’s Jaxie Clackton brings to mind the voices of other great survivors in literature, such as Huckleberry Finn and Oliver Twist, who struggle against impossible odds with pluck, common sense, and a refreshingly keen command of the vernacular. Once you start reading this book, you won’t want to put it down. A powerful, most compelling story
Brad Watson, author of Miss Jane

A richly compassionate work, deeply informed by Winton’s poetic genius
Alex Miller, author of Journey to the Stone Country

Describes the chaotic struggle of new masculinity better than anything else I’ve read. As an exploration of the intergenerational trauma that plagues men, it couldn’t be more timely. Seriously, it’s incredible
Ben Quilty