The Riders

Tim Winton depicts a desperate man’s odyssey across Europe in search of the missing wife he now realises he barely knew.  "If you're looking for a book that bolts you to your seat, this is it"  (Sunday Age).

After Scully has a ghostly vision of twenty horsemen, his wife, Jennifer, suddenly and mysteriously vanishes. Scully’s seven-year-old daughter, Billy, may have witnessed Jennifer’s disappearance but has been rendered mute by the ordeal. Clues lead Scully and his daughter on a quest that covers Greece, Italy, Paris, and Amsterdam, as he slowly accepts his failure along with the idea that some things will never be known.

"The Riders is about the painful process of learning to live without illusions, without false anticipation... Furious and vital... a celebration - of the messiness of life and of the force of good fiction."  -   The Guardian

"At its breaking heart is a fearless exploration of how well we can ever really know each other... Winton is not a great Australian novelist; he is a great novelist full stop."  -   The Times

Tim Winton has published over 20 books for adults and children.  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). Active in the environmental movement, he is the Patron of the Australian Marine Conservation Society.