Tim Winton: 'My only peers were in the library'

The Australian novelist on Twain and Faulkner, and why his new novel tackles the thorny issue of environmental activism

Tim Winton is the author of 25 books for adults and children, and Eyrie is his ninth novel. It has just been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin award , which Winton has won on four previous occasions; his novels The Riders and Dirt Music have also been shortlisted for the Booker prize. He lives in western Australia.

This is your first novel since Breath, in 2008. But you often work on more than one thing at once, don't you?

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