Riders

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.‘A brilliant reflection on the instability of personality and memory, written in page-turning style’ –The Daily TelegraphFred Scully is determined to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. For months he has laboured alone to make their dilapidated cottage habitable, and now his wife and child are coming to meet him: this will be their fresh start. But when he arrives at the airport to collect them, only his small daughter steps off the plane . . .So begins Tim Winton’s The Riders. This is Scully’s desperate journey across Europe, trying to track down the wife he comes to realize he didn’t know.‘An intricate, magnificently readable novel’ – The Sunday Telegraph‘Makes the senses jump. Concentrated, passionate, invigorating’ – The IndependentPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

Tim Winton is widely considered one of the greatest living Australian writers. 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.