Island Home MP3 CD – Unabridged, June 15, 2016

Yet again Tim Winton has demonstrated just why he is regarded as one of the greatest Australian writers ever.It may be that many Australians look at the same landscapes as Tim Winton and feel similar emotions and passions. They may love their country just as much as he. But there the comparison ends. Tim Winton's ability to articulate what he is seeing and feeling are without peer. What's more, such is the power of his writing, he leaves the reader feeling that he/she is seeing old familiar landscapes with new eyes and renewed insights.This is a thought-provoking and brilliantly written memoir - I loved it and will return to it again and again.

The author is renouned for his fiction, but this is pure memoir. I found his stories about specific experiences in specific places to be truly enlightening about what provided the background for his uniquely personal- feeling fiction!

Enjoyed this book from start to finish. This novel made me think more about the influence of where I grew up than anything I have ever read.

A more recent, and of course male, version of Jill Ker Conway's The Road to Coorain. Winton captures the rugged expansiveness of the Australian outdoors, and the yearning Australians feel in their blood, to spend more time outdoors than inside.

Thank you Tim Winton, a man of depth, wisdom and sensitivity. May his writing make us step up. We are interconnected with the environment. It can live without us, but we not without it. And yet we are the most dangerous to this fact and ultimately ourselves.

It is book to read I read it and enjoyed it,

Well-documented story of how one man and his family found their way home to Australia...an interesting and lovely read.

A very good travel through the history of settlement, the beauty of travel through Australia to destinations many Australian will never visit but an encouragement to learn more about far-flung places and their beauty and perhaps b e onspired to explore.

An absolutely fabulous book. The writing, as you would expect, is wonderfully laid back but precise. However, as intended, it is the landscape description that sings from the pages. I find myself inspired to look up places on the map, google native flora and fauna for pictures, sit and absorb the description and let my mind go there for a moment.It really is a true celebration and love song to Western Australia. For anyone whose soul has been touched by that wondrous country, it is a 'must read'.

a really great read.

This land, that defies domestication, that puzzles, amazes, and inspires; it calls us, calls to us, and calls for us to live here on its terms. Tim Winton has done what he often does, his gift, of seeing for us what is obvious and plain, but had only sensed dimly, is held before us as a precious, priceless “present” - past and future.

I connected with this book due to knowing some of the places he wrote about, his stories on growing up, making rafts frying ants catching frogs etc also reminded of my brother and his friends. Tim 's passion for the land and its rich heritage his stories of early Australia. Tim through story is urging us to respect the past and seek a future of greater understanding of our great land. Tim writes in a very Australian descriptive manner. I enjoyed this book learnt a lot and it aHas left a great impression on me, but not necessary easy read.

Tim Winton's Island Home had the same effect on me as Robert Hughes's Fatal Shore had in that it shines a light on what it means to be an Australian. Tim's love for his island home is apparent on every page and I found it fascinating to read about how the landscape, sea and sense of place shaped not only him as a man, but his writing as well. I like the fact that he respects working people and loves the environment, clearly seeing the impact one has on the other. A beautiful book in every way.